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The imperial crown and velvet robes were missing. So was the ride from Buckingham Palace to Westminster in the horse-drawn state coach. Instead, Queen Elizabeth, wearing the same sapphire-blue coat she wore at Princess Anne's recent wedding, drove to the House of Lords to open the...
What is important is the remarkable stability and success of Brazil's decade-old right-wing dictatorship. Its achievement has far-reaching implications, a fact that President Nixon accurately noted in an ebullient 1971 salute to the visiting Medici: "As Brazil goes, so will the rest of the Latin...
The subject of these worshipful encomiums was Imperial Army Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, Japan's last-known World War II straggler, who had finally been persuaded to surrender on the remote Philippine island of Lubang. For many Japanese, Onoda's ordeal seemed to strike a more responsive emotional...
In some ways, Portugal's experience in Africa has resembled the U.S.A.'s in Indochina. In both cases, an empire past its peak sought to shore up its imperial defenses, regardless of the cost to the people it was fighting or even to its own people. Portugal, one of the...
Harvard still owns its Gulf Oil stock, and Portugal is still in Angola. But last week made it clearer than ever that the occupation of Mass Hall was just a small part of a continuing struggle, a struggle that touches Cambridge and Lisbon as well as Angola, that extends to...