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...Algerian coast one day last week a Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop airliner cruised along in the early afternoon sunshine. Alone in the blue skies at 28,000 ft., it had aboard the Soviets' figurehead of state, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, 54, on his way to visit Guinea via a stopover in Morocco. At precisely 2:18 p.m. the Ilyushin got company...
...Jackson had agreed to serve as Democratic national chairman until Jan. i-a job that, under normal circumstances, would put him in charge of the campaign. But Bobby quickly and quietly asserted his authority, and Jack confirmed it. Nowadays, everybody works for Bobby, and Scoop Jackson is a titled figurehead and troubleshooter (this week he was off in his own Washington State trying to retrieve a situation that imperils Jack Kennedy's chances there...
...three years as a benevolently bumbling leftist, then was shot to death last September by a Buddhist monk. When elections were called for March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats to splinter the House of Representatives so that no party could rule effectively...
Symbol of Unity. Ostensibly the meeting was to settle details of Prince Juan Carlos' final years of university education. Actually, it was to make peace. In Portugal. Don Juan makes no bones of his opposition to the idea of becoming a mere figurehead for Franco. He favors a liberal, constitutional system, similar to that in Britain, is outspokenly opposed to strongman dictatorship. "Portugal," he once told New York Timesman C. L. Sulzberger. "is a republic where, if you mention the word republic, you are clapped in jail; Spain is a monarchy where, if you mention the word monarchy...
...Stevenson. Trembling with emotion, he raked over his grudge against Stevenson who, he claims, doublecrossed him in 1956, after promising that Butler not only would remain as national chairman but would be active manager of Stevenson's presidential campaign. He was able to stay on as a mere figurehead, says Butler, only because House Speaker Sam Rayburn "forced" Stevenson to retain...