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...marching season," when the war-weary province's Catholics and Protestants celebrate-separately and often violently-past sectarian milestones. This week Protestants will don their orange sashes to parade through Belfast in honor of William of Orange's victory over England's last Catholic monarch, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Four weeks later, their opponents will parade in doleful memory of "Internment Day," the anniversary of a 1971 British military roundup where hundreds of Catholics were jailed without trials...
...believe that the Shah is in any danger of being overthrown. Iran's monarch still has the machinery of power firmly in his hands. The Shah also has a broad base of popular support, particularly in the army and among farmers and a newly created industrial working class, who have benefited from land reforms and measures giving workers 20% of the profits of companies employing them and allowing them to buy up to 49% of the company's shares...
ENGAGED. King Hussein, 42, urbane monarch of Jordan; and Elizabeth (Lisa) Halaby, 26, a Princeton architecture graduate, whose father is a former president of Pan American World Airways (see WORLD...
...majlis (Arabic for a "sitting," although the word can also mean "council," or even "parliament"). According to Arab custom, reinforced by a 1952 decree of King Abdul Aziz, every subject has the right of access to his ruler, whether the ruler is a tribal sheik, a governor or the monarch himself, to present petitions of complaint or pleas for help. Even the poorest Saudi can approach his sovereign to plead a cause; functionaries of the royal court found guilty of improperly turning aside a petitioner face severe punishment...
...thought his elder brother would, and was horrified when he found he was going to become King. He then said to an intimate, "It's awful. I have not been trained as King at all." The friend replied, "You've had the finest upbringing a constitutional monarch can have-you've been brought up as an officer in the Royal Navy...