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...attempted coup at the summer palace of Morocco's King Hassan II, carried out by cadets who thought they were rescuing their monarch...
THOUGH he was once one of the more notorious playboys of the Arab world, Morocco's King Hassan II quickly proved himself a sober ruler when he acceded to the throne more than ten years ago. But the slim, dark-eyed monarch still enjoys a good bash, and he decided to celebrate in style when he turned 42 last week. Accordingly, he invited 500 guests, including Cabinet Ministers, generals and the diplomatic corps, to join him at Skhirat, one of his ten palaces, which is situated at a seaside spa ten miles outside Rabat...
...friends had stayed up all night studying for an exam, sampled eggs together at dawn in Lowell House, traded Monarch Notes with each other...
...illegal march to a world war is to start impeachment proceedings against the President, in which case we should start without delay. To do so might at least remind him that he is an elected public servant, sworn to uphold the Constitution he daily subverts, and not an anointed Monarch...
...reinstatement of Constantine is a vital question because, in Greece, the monarch has always been more than the shadow-figure which his counterparts in most other European countries have become. As Andreas points out in the interview, Constantine's collaboration was vital to the imposition of the military junta-just as that of Constantine's father, King Paul-resurrected by the British after World War II-ushered in a period of conservatism and reaction which ultimately built for the 1967 coup...