Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hassan had a lot coming with him to the U.S., he also had a lot going for him. Once a playboy whose chief pursuits were sports cars and sporting girls, the young monarch, now 37, has changed many of his ways since he inherited the throne in 1961. Washington considers him not only a friend but an energetic, intelligent and responsible ruler-a potentate with potential. Although Morocco is officially nonaligned, Hassan leans unwaveringly toward the West, even gives silent sympathy to the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. More important, his refusal to take part in the Arab boycott against...
...crisis was brought to a head by Oxford-educated Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, 28, who was left little more than a figurehead monarch by his country's new constitution. As the namesake and great-grandson of the founder of Basutoland, Moshoeshoe (pronounced Mo-shway-shway) reckoned that he rated a better break...
Fearful that the King might use the incident to incite more trouble, Chief Jonathan placed the youthful monarch under heavily guarded "protective custody." As reports reached the capital of sporadic fighting between police and the King's men in the rugged outback, Chief Jonathan expelled eight political figures, including several of the King's closest advisors. Some observers felt that Chief Jonathan was using the dust-up as an excuse to rid the country of what both he and South African authorities viewed as dangerous elements. As for the young King, Chief Jonathan seems inclined to forgive...
...sounded each evening, while runners race through the darkened groves, whirling their flaming torches and lighting up flares, just as they did in the courts of the alii (chieftains). The Hanalei Plantation (opposite), which includes a 20th Century Fox set designer's re-creation of a Hawaiian monarch's palace, overlooks the beach where Mitzi Gaynor washed that man right outa her hair in South Pacific. Owner Lyle Guslander, who has built hotels on all three of the major Neighbor Islands, insists that every employee learn the name of every guest. Evenings in its House of Happy Talk...
...moderate King Hussein, who is more or less caught in the middle between the Israelis and the Arab extremists, he had to listen to radio pleas from Syria and Egypt urging Jordan's 700,000 Palestinian refugees to overthrow their monarch. To get his country ready for any explosion, Hussein put his security forces on a round-the-clock alert; he began sending extra arms to police posts on the border, started drafting all men between 18 and 40 for 90 days of crash training and strung his tough, trusted Arab Legionnaires all along the frontier. His forces soon...