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...diplomat. Two and a half years later. Komsomolskaya Pravda reported, a pathetic figure stood begging forgiveness on her father's doorstep. How she had paid for her folly! Her husband, it turned out, already had one wife, and Svetlana had been little more than a brutalized, half-starved harem slave, forced to wait on wife No. 1 and her three children. This, said Komsomolskaya Pravda, was the awful fate awaiting those "frivolous girls who consider they are born only for amusement and recklessly chase after foreign libertines...
...fostering conditions that are an affront to "the law of justice and the law of God." Said Nasser: "We shall have genuine class equality. Political freedom is nonsense without freedom from feudalism and capitalism ... If social justice is applied in Saudi Arabia, how can King Saud finance his harem and his slaves?" Stabbing the air with his fingers and pursing his lips, Nasser continued: "They accuse me of conspiring to topple their regimes. If I were really to conspire, I'd finish them in two months. In two months, I tell you. Saud spent six million dollars trying...
...Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, keenly interested onlooker in India's invasion of Goa, said that he would follow suit by "liberating" the oil-drenched sheikdom "in the coming days." In the past, Nasser has had as little use for Kassem as for Arabia's harem kings, but recently there have been rumors of a reconciliation...
...Indian government in 1948; of cancer; in New Delhi. Of low caste despite his princely rank (he was descended from a land-grabbing shepherd), the Maharaja devoted large chunks of an estimated prewar income of $70 million a year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education and the abolition of child marriage, to justify in the eyes of his people the import of his title: "His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings...
...appearance of a female Fernandel. Horse-faced and giraffe-bodied, long in the tooth and weak in the head, she seems to have been endowed by her creator with certain inalienable wrongs, among them five legs, seven elbows and 423 teeth. In one episode, she shows up as a harem girl to end all harems, and she almost saves the show when she whips out her trusty little recorder and shyly tootles an Elizabethan ditty called Woe Is My Bosom Friend, Lackaday...