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...martial law proclamation, it is now the army that runs the country, and, again theoretically, Diem placed top authority in Major General Tran Van Don, 46, a highly respected, onetime corps commander who has had great military success against the Viet Cong. But Don may merely be a figurehead. Hostile to the government, he was pulled out of his field command last December and kicked upstairs to a staff job, where he would have no troops at his disposal in case the thought of a coup ever crossed his mind...
...college. He has more power, and work, since he has a considerable say in the government of the whole University. The Oxford Vice-Chancellor roughly corresponds to the Harvard President, but his position is taken in turns by the college heads. The Chancellor, currently Harold Macmillian, is a figurehead...
What's the Difference? After a late night talk, King Hussein and Rifai agreed on a new government, looking toward parliamentary democracy and Hussein's eventual retirement to the figurehead role of a constitutional monarch. They even gingerly accepted the Nasser-Baath slogan of ''Freedom, Unity, Socialism,'' with only the slight amendment of the final word to read "A Better Life...
Fowler was expressing an eminently practical view. Having escalated himself to the title of board chairman, Roy Roberts served immediate notice that he has no intention of playing figurehead. "I'm going to get out from underfoot a while," he said as he prepared to leave for a ten-week cruise of the Pacific. "I don't want to be breathing down the necks of the new team as they take over. But I'll be back, don't worry about that. I'll just ooze in the back door to keep...
Died. Sidi Mohammed al-Amin, 81, last of the 19 Beys of Tunis, a spade-bearded figurehead given to gilt-encrusted uniforms and tinkering with his 2,000 grandfather clocks, who sat as France's puppet king from 1943 until 1957 when the new Tunisian republic ousted him-and his seven dwarf jesters-from his palace, thus ending a 252-year dynasty originally set up by the Turkish masters of the Ottoman Empire in 1705; of a heart attack; in Tunis...