Word: monarchal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngest queens won their life of privilege for the oldest of dynastic reasons-the ability to bear an heir. By the constitutions of vast Iran and tiny Jordan respectively, the dynasties of Reza Pahlevi and the House of the Hashemites may continue only so long as the monarch has a son to succeed...
Islam last week marked the end of the 1,333rd pilgrimage to Mecca. As 1,250,000 Moslems left for home, they carried with them from Mohammedanism's most devout observance the echoes of a noisy political feud between Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Saud, and Egypt's dictator, President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In the struggle for supremacy in the modern Arab world, the ancient ways of Saudi Arabia are slowly changing...
...deputy for a monarch...
...Uganda's Apollo Milton Obote, 37, achieved his easy triumph with the sup port of the country's most powerful tribal monarch, Kabaka ("Freddie") Mutesa II of Buganda. Election day brought a heavy turnout; shy Pygmies emerged from Western Uganda's forests to vote, and polling officials often found it difficult to prevent them from taking their bows and arrows into the curtained booths. Winner Obote is a fervent anti-Communist whose major task in corning months will be in London, where constitutional talks are scheduled this summer. The constitution that Obote needs must give Uganda...
...then forming Soviets in towns all over northern Italy. He believed that the factories should be taken over, all right-but that he should take them in the name of Italy. To little King Victor Emmanuel III, he seemed to promise order in a chaos of revolutionaries; the midget monarch asked him to take charge...