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...Iran since Nov. 4; but he sugar-coated his criticism by emotionally professing that he "could understand the seizure of the hostages in human terms." At the same time, Clark demanded the trial of the Shah by an international tribunal, and criticized Carter's support for the ousted monarch...
What do you give the monarch who has everything? Knowing Queen Elizabeth II's fondness for horseflesh, Australians decided to commemorate her silver jubilee three years ago with a Thoroughbred. A champion sire was bred to six mares. Of four foals resulting, one was a colt (the Queen preferred a filly), another was injured. The remaining pair were recently matched in a speed trial. Last week, visiting Canberra, the Queen paused to accept the winner. "A wonderful present," said Elizabeth, who dubbed the two-year-old bay Australia Fair...
...modern monarchies are closer to the people they democratically monarch than The Netherlands' House of Orange, and last week new Queen Beatrix, 42, and her family demonstrated why. Her coronation in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk as successor to her mother. Queen Juliana, 71, who was abdicating after 32 years, was a blaze of pageantry and color. But a block away from the monarchist crowds, in a city lately famous for noisy dissidents, clamored a raucous group protesting not only the coronation but also the country's tight housing policies. Did the royals realize that the dissenters were...
...Maadi Military Hospital, overlooking the Nile River on the outskirts of Cairo. As helicopters whirred overhead, 100 machine gun-toting soldiers cordoned off the seven-story concrete building, refusing to admit even the relatives of other patients. Inside, a team of 20 doctors labored to foster the ousted monarch's recovery from emergency surgery on his cancerous spleen. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak reports on the tense medical vigil...
...squez, a former Panamanian Supreme Court Justice who is Iran's counsel in Panama, the law requires the Shah's arrest as soon as the document is filed at the Foreign Ministry. Although the prospect of arrest seemed unlikely, the Panamanian government clearly regarded the ailing monarch as an embarrassment, and wished he would go away. On Sunday, that wish was fulfilled...