Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threw his support behind moderate Laborite John O'Grady, 62, who mounted an independent challenge under the label "Real Labor." It was a dirty campaign. Tatchell received 20 death threats, and in an allusion to his rumored sexual preferences, 10,000 pamphlets flooded Bermondsey picturing Tatchell with the monarch above the caption WHICH QUEEN WILL YOU VOTE FOR? The vituperative campaign helped to divide the Labor vote and destroyed any remaining chance for a Labor victory...
...most traveled monarch in history (she has logged and sometimes slogged more than 750,000 miles since her coronation in 1953) is making her most extensive tour ever in the Northern Hemisphere. She is also taking up President Reagan's offer to come-on-over-and-see-us-some-time. It will be her first foray to the brave new world of California, where for weeks the glitterati have been jockeying for gilded invitations. Yes, she is pleased to get out of dreary, drizzly London and into the sunshine, but the royal purpose remains the same: to strengthen ties...
...anything but revolutionary. Nor is it a party in the sense generally understood in Western democracies. But the P.R.I, is an institution: since its organization in 1929, it has not lost a single presidential election. The President, the most influential man in the party, rules Mexico like a virtual monarch for six years. Then, after consulting with a few powerbrokers, he designates his heir. In a blitzkrieg campaign, the successor is paraded before the voters, who give him an overwhelming victory. Says a Western diplomat in Mexico City: "The only comparable party in the world is the Soviet Communist Party...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman is the most forthright, and therefore often the loneliest, of America's friends on the Arabian peninsula. He is also the most optimistic, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott found during an interview with the 41-year-old monarch...
...special source of pride to Henry VIII, founding genius of that noble institution. In 1509, Bluff King Hal named the 130-ft., 700-ton, four-masted carrack, which became the vice flagship of his royal fleet, Mary Rose, after his favorite sister. But on July 19, 1545, the willful monarch looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada. "Oh, my gentlemen, oh, my gallant men!" cried Henry, as he watched some 665 seamen...