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...were not enough that a plague of locusts threatened some 300,000 of his subjects with starvation, Libya's 65-year-old King Idris himself was plagued with family troubles. In the first place, his wife, Queen Fatima, 40, had given him no son and heir. Then too, the entire royal family was jealous of the trust the old King put in his chief adviser, Ibrahim el-Shalhi, who wanted to marry the King off to his own daughter. Last fall a nephew of the Queen shot the adviser dead...
...Fatima's nephew was executed for his trouble, but his sacrifice was not in vain...
...looked like carnival time in Rio. Firecrackers popped, and from balconies flowers rained. Rio was welcoming a small (44 in., 33 Ibs.) white & gold statue of Our Lady of Fatima, whose famous shrine in Portugal is rivaling even Lourdes in popularity (TIME, May 14, 1951)As the statue, on tour of the world since the spring of 1947, moved through the streets in a gilded carriage, Cariocas followed, cheering and weeping. Even the devotees of African white magic came out of Rio favelas (hillside slums). Little girls, dressed as angels and as the Virgin herself, stood along...
...Municipal Stadium, jammed to nearly double capacity by the biggest turnout Rio could remember, topping even the most popular football game. Later, when a photographer's flashbulb exploded, a man blind for 27 years cried: "I see a light! Thank you, Nossa Senhora de Fatima!" Churchmen did not claim any miracles for the Lady, but others did, fervently. One man who said that the statue could work miracles was challenged by a skeptic. In the argument that followed, the two men drew their knives. The believer was stabbed to death...
...Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (Warner...