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It was obvious that this question would dominate the Tokyo summit long before the government chiefs gathered around a 27-ft.-long mahogany table in the gilt-and-rococo Akasaka Palace for their first formal session. The summit, fifth in an annual series devoted to economics, had been scheduled before...
In contrast to the feverish activity in Geneva, summit preparations went on almost serenely in Vienna, where the treaty is to be signed at 1 p.m. in the Redoutensaal, a gold-and-white ballroom in the sprawling Hofburg, the Habsburg dynasty's Imperial Palace. Vienna officials were taking the...
The Butcher of Bangui," as the African newspaper has dubbed His Imperial Majesty Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire, is a ruler whose future may be on the block. Last week the U.S. suddenly recalled Ambassador Goodwin Cooke, following reports by Amnesty International, the London-based human rights...
Last January the Emperor ordered all primary and secondary students to wear special uniforms bearing his own imperial likeness. The uniforms cost an extortionate $165 each and were sold exclusively by a factory owned by one of the Emperor's wives. Weeks of strikes and rioting followed the decree...
But in analyzing the power of these institutions and the media in general--supposedly Halberstam's objective here--he does nothing new. All his major themes have been introduced and explored, usually with much more immediacy, by other writers. Take, for instance, the impact of television in reshaping American politics...