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...forces last week bombarded towns and installations controlled by Phalangist and National Liberal militiamen. The heaviest fire was concentrated on East Beirut, where both Gemayel's and Chamoun's headquarters went up in flames. "This is genocide against the Christians of Lebanon," protested Chamoun. Lebanese Foreign Minister Fuad Butros rushed to Damascus in a vain attempt to arrange a ceasefire. But Syria's tough Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas responded: "The Syrian army will strike with an iron fist to destroy the Phalangist and Chamounist gangs." Asserted Radio Damascus: "Syria is impartial. We fight lawless elements within...
...contrast, the Wafd Party, which was reborn only three months ago, has been restrained in criticizing Sadat. But during a hotly contested by-election campaign in Alexandria this month, Wafd Leader Fuad Serageddin spoke for three hours as thousands cheered, giving the impression that he would soon mount a serious challenge to the regime. It was the-Wafd that led Egypt's struggle for independence from the British after World War I and often clashed with Farouk in attempting to limit the powers of the monarchy. After Nasser came to power in 1952, the Wafd was banned, along with...
MARRIED. Prince Ahmed-Fuad, 25, only son of Egypt's late King Farouk; and Student Dominique-France Picard, 29, who is writing her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on the psychology of women in The Thousand and One Nights; both for the first time; at Monaco's royal palace. The infant Fuad was King-for-a-day in Egypt after his father abdicated in 1952, but his parents fled for Europe that night with him, his three half sisters and an estimated $40 million aboard the royal yacht...
...said about the many TIME cover stories on monarchs over the decades. Totting them up in connection with this week's story on European royalty, we discovered that Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Emperors and Shahs have been on our cover 91 times since 1923, when the first, King Fuad I of Egypt, appeared. A few royals, such as Elizabeth II and her father George VI of Great Britain, Alfonso XIII (grandfather of Juan Carlos, Spain's present King, who is one of this week's cover subjects), have made TIME'S cover three or more times...
...would be enthroned as 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...