Word: monarchal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's the Difference? After a late night talk, King Hussein and Rifai agreed on a new government, looking toward parliamentary democracy and Hussein's eventual retirement to the figurehead role of a constitutional monarch. They even gingerly accepted the Nasser-Baath slogan of ''Freedom, Unity, Socialism,'' with only the slight amendment of the final word to read "A Better Life...
...reserved the honor of the first official visit of a chief of state to Algeria since its independence for a real advocate of "socialist Arab nationalism," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. For all Morocco's warm cooperation during the struggle with France, the high-living young monarch's autocratic ideas are anathema to Ben Bella and his crusading idealists. "Hassan is the last person we want to see here at this time," gritted an Algerian official. "But he will be treated as a guest should...
Thus last week Iran's huge, $67.2 million "Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi Dam." highest in the Middle East* went into operation as another feather in the crown of the country's 43-year-old reform-minded monarch. To help finance the dam. the World Bank loaned Iran $42 million, but the rest of the cash came from the Shah's $300 million annual oil revenues. To oversee the project. Iran picked two ex-chairmen of the U.S.'s Tennessee Valley Authority. David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who now head a Manhattan-based consulting firm...
...your Feb. 8 cover portrait: the hat may be that of Napoleon, the bust that of Louis XIV, but the words coming from le grand Charles's mouth can only be those of that witty but cynical monarch Louis XV: "Aprés moi, le déluge...
...some record for a monarch who once seemed ineffectual and powerless to stave off the growing discontent of Iran's poor masses. A decade before, few would have imagined that workers and farmers would be crying his slogans, waving his banners. But there they were on the eve of the big referendum called to give the nation's yes or no to his sweeping plans for aid to needy rural and city Iranians. Women, who got the vote for the first time in Iran's history, gathered at polling places to shout, "Long live Mohammed Reza Shah...