Word: monarchical
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...monarch is an old man now, and those same eyes carry mostly sadness. For the past three decades he has lived in exile in Italy while his nation was decimated by foreign invasion and civil war. But Afghanistan is again set to turn to its former King for help. As part of last year's Bonn accord, which established Hamid Karzai as interim leader, the former King will inaugurate in June a loya jirga, a traditional Afghan assembly to choose a new head of state and transitional government to lead the country to elections in 2004. The ex-King...
...Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. Both Karzai's presence and the tight security are signs that Afghanistan's good guys and bad guys alike believe the royal leader may possess a singular power to unify the fractured nation. A European official with extensive experience in the region said the ex-monarch's popular support is remarkably strong - and cuts across ethnic and tribal lines: "He reminds people of a period of peace, while everything has been war. And most of all, the Afghan people want peace. He is a figure of great moral - and thus political - stature...
...claims that the motives for Rahman's death were "personal, not political." But Rahman, like Karzai, was a royalist, and some diplomats believe the killing was the Northern Alliance's way of demonstrating opposition to the planned return to Afghanistan this spring of Mohammed Zahir Shah, 87, the exiled monarch. An Afghan patriarch was heard muttering at the funeral: "This killing is a clear warning to Zahir Shah's people...
...Prime Number 250 million monarch butterflies were killed in a freak storm in Mexico, threatening the species, according to the World Wildlife Fund...
...world increasingly concerned about Saudi Arabia's future can do little more than hope that Abdullah is right. If it turns out that Saudis must adapt more rapidly, however, they will discover whether their future monarch is equipped to lead the way. That will give Abdullah the chance to put those sneakers to a bigger test...