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...Syria has any interests whatsoever in the country. Send in several hundred marines without a clear idea of what they're doing and get more than 200 of them killed doing it. And then watch as Syria eats up the country. Even though Reagan doesn't admit it, the emperor has no clothes, and the people are beginning to know...
Europeans refer to Reagan as the "Emperor President," Vernon says, to express a perception that he moves without any thought of consulting European allies. The President's decision to withdraw American troops from Lebanon without consulting the French and British military about possible ramifications for their troops' security, has helped to reinforce this view. It has been interpreted as the latest in a series of alienating foreign policy moves on the part of the Reagan Administration...
...wealthy financier, based his pro-French Vietnamese government on his country's small upper class, exiled his ablest political associates and ignored French pleas to fight insurgent forces of the Communist Viet Minh. In June 1952 Huu was fired by Viet Nam's chief of state, the Emperor...
...that the Chou Emperor who ruled China in 1090 had one empress, three consorts, nine spouses, 27 concubines and 81 assistant concubines, whose rotation of duty was exactly scheduled over the course of each fortnight so that the women of highest rank occupied the imperial bed on the nights closest to the full moon...
...self-proclaimed "emperor" of the Central African Republic, Bokassa, had the strong support of Shuman Gonen, an Israeli general and respected member of Israel's Herut party. Gonen reportedly tried to build up international support for the "emperor," whose bloody regime was eventually toppled. In Malawi, Israelis reportedly may even be training government squads that practice torture. (11) And news stories about the recent visits of Israeli defense officials to Zaire to set up arms and training arrangements often did not mention that Zaire's dictator, General Mobutu, is considered by some to be one of the most ruthless...