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...drug king will also be able to attend to his creature comforts. The prison is large enough to accommodate 40, which is about how many of Escobar's confidants are expected to follow their monarch into entombment, like Qin- dynasty soldiers. Escobar's older brother Roberto was among the first to surrender late last week and join him in his as yet Spartan quarters. There is neither heating nor air conditioning, the four large dormitories are equipped with steel double-decker beds, and the recreation room is bare save for a television set. Escobar will undoubtedly use some...
...progressive if gradual change. "By next fall," predicts an aide to a senior prince, "there will be a Consultative Council and a major Cabinet reshuffle." The council, consisting of 80 to 100 appointive members, will have limited powers that will not impinge on the absolute authority of the monarch. According to the Saudi adviser, the Cabinet changes will not involve defense and internal security. Fahd's half brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, commands the National Guard, and his full brothers, Prince Sultan and Prince Naif, direct the Defense and Interior ministries...
Then in 1984, a monarch accepted Harvard's invitation. King Juan Carlos of Spain, the man who had guided his country from the totalitarianism of Gen. Francisco Franco to a fragile democracy, came to speak to the graduating class...
...Great Pretender. London's respected Independent newspaper reported April 1 that Arthur Wynd, a farmer claiming to be the illegitimate son of Edward VIII's "forgotten" twin brother, was challenging Queen Elizabeth II's right to be monarch. As outrage grew over the prospect of a royal DNA test, the paper admitted that it had made up the whole thing...
...battlefield has always been a fruitful scouting ground for kingmakers. George Washington was eager to retire after his years as a soldier, but there were some who urged him to become a military despot, if not an absolute monarch. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, rode into the White House with two bullets in his body and a white scar across his face. When South Carolina tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under...