Word: monarchal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old monarch still has the wholehearted support of the countryside. After all, Hassan is the deified leader of a deeply religious nationalism, and nearly 75% of all Moroccans are country folk who revere both royalty and Allah. Confident of rural support, Hassan last week dropped earlier government charges that the riots had been provoked by "foreign agitators" (translated Ahmed ben Bella) and in a radio broadcast couched in peasant Arabic, focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded...
...neatly fashioned into the shapes of elephants, alligators and birds. In the Gomain Room (so named for a red precious stone, said to be clearer than a ruby), the King spoke of the closeness of Thai-U.S. relations. Then he showed the visitors some of his canvases-the monarch is a dedicated amateur painter. The pictures included one showing a blur of writhing demons in browns, greens and reds titled Subversion...
...refugees from neighboring Rwanda, inflaming their irredentist cause with propaganda and even arms. Chinese sympathizers were soon so numerous in the 64-member National Assembly that they became known locally as "The Group." At one of the Mwami's diplomatic receptions, Ambassador Liu brazenly walked up to the monarch and began talking. Stiffly, the Mwami rebuffed Liu by saying: "I speak only to ambassadors who know French...
With his gift for compromise, his powers of persuasion, and his wizardry at counting noses-aided, from 1955 on, by ubiquitous little Senate Majority Secretary Bobby Baker-it was not long before Johnson was absolute monarch of the place. He was the most influential Democrat in the nation, stood second in power only to President Eisenhower. According to one of the gags current during that time, a Senate page asked a door attendant, "Have you seen Senator Johnson?" The reply: "I haven't seen anything but a burning bush...
...THAILAND. Probably nowhere in Asia is Buddhism a gentler, more pervasive force than in pro-Western Thailand. Though now a constitutional monarch. King Bhumibol is still widely revered as a Buddhist god-king. Everywhere monks are valued not only as spiritual leaders but as astrologers and diviners. Some have even become management consultants, called on by businessmen before major investment decisions...