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...Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the political department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, charged that the aim of the terrorists was to split OPEC and deprive the Third World of its most effective weapon against the West. It was so counterproductive to Palestinian goals, he added darkly, that it must have been engineered by American imperialists and Zionists-a patently absurd charge...
...open-door economic policy. Two months after he was installed, he called for the repeal of the "sequestration" orders that Nasser had used to seize the land and property of the upper class. According to some estimates, there are now more millionaires in Egypt than there were under King Farouk. At least some of them have made their piles through kickbacks on government contracts, especially for arms and heavy vehicles. Forty percent of the total cost of a contract often finds its way into various private pockets...
...been a bad time for royalty. Not only did Greek voters reject King Constantine, but a military junta ousted Ethiopia's venerable (82) Emperor Haile Selassie. Sooner rather than later, it seems, history will bear out the bitter bon mot of Egypt's King Farouk, who himself was forced to abdicate in 1952. In a few years, said Farouk, there will be only five kings in the world: the King of England and the four in the deck of cards...
...Czar Vladimir III if the Romanovs were ever restored to power-live in Spain. Italy's Umberto II, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's own Duarte, Duke of Braganza reside in Portugal. In Switzerland, there are Michael of Rumania and Ahmed-Fuad II of Egypt (Farouk's eldest son), while Otto von Hapsburg, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire who now calls himself Dr. Hapsburg, lives in West Germany and writes and lectures. The leading claimant to the French throne, Henri d'Orléans, the Count of Paris, lives in the country...
...King Hussein or the P.L.O., which claims to be the Palestinians' only legitimate representative. The issue was probably the summit's thorniest and most acrimonious problem. During the preparatory foreign ministers' meetings that preceded the summit, feeling ran so high at one point that Farouk Kaddoumy, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, heaved his well-filled dinner plate at Jordanian Premier and Foreign Minister Zaid Rifai. At week's end the foreign ministers voted 19 to 1 to adopt a resolution co-sponsored by Syria and Egypt that would strip King Hussein of sovereignty...