Word: emperor
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...tempting quick fix for inflation. Nearly 40 centuries ago, the Babylonian King Hammurabi established wage and price limits. They set, for example, the annual wage of a field worker at eight gur (75 bu.) of corn and that of a herdsman at six gur (56.25 bu.). The Roman Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 301 published official price lists that included artichokes and transportation by camel; any gougers were executed. The most recent American experience with general controls was President Nixon's 1971-74 program of freezes, followed by varying degrees of restraint...
...insurance executive and Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, whose late father King Peter II fled his country during World War II; and his wife of eight years, Maria da Gloria, 33, a cousin of Spain's King Juan Carlos and a great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil; their first child; in Chicago. Name: Peter...
...boycott gives those committees around the world all kinds of apocalyptic visions: the sacred grove in ruins, the Games destroyed as surely as they were in A.D. 393, when the Emperor Theodosius proscribed them. If the Americans and others boycott Moscow, they say, then the Soviets might withdraw from the Olympic movement, denouncing it as a "tool of the imperialists." The 1984 Games in Los Angeles will be a forlornly restricted drama without the Soviets and their friends. The Olympics will cease to be a world movement. The Olympic torch will...
...third and final installment, Ms. Dugger reported that the present Director, Mr. Gordon, "...doubts the HIID would advise the Central African Empire...under the present government." Surely, he must have meant to refer to the government of former Emperor Jean-Badel Bokassa, which was overturned in September 1979, more than five months ago. The nation is now once again the Central African Republic, headed by President David Dacko, who is generally judged to be a benevolent leader. Former Emperor Bokassa is in exile in the Ivory Coast...
...decade also had madmen working on a grander scale: Idi Amin, who slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people in Uganda; the Emperor Bokassa, who brought other homicidal variations on the heart of darkness to the Central African Republic. Millions of Cambodians and Vietnamese boat people were caught in the lethal politics of Southeast Asia...