Word: figureheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabia's King Saud, 61, returned to his desert capital of Riyadh last week. At the airport he received full honors and an embrace from his half-brother and heir, Crown Prince Feisal. But it was hardly a triumphal homecoming, for Saud is now no more than a figurehead ruler...
...Major General Tran Van Don, chief of the general staff and technically in charge of administering the country under martial law. Actually he commands only a bodyguard of 50 troops, and at the moment is considered a figurehead...
...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...