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...would take courage for Hussein to democratize his country. Many loyal Jordanians would brand him a traitor. But their choices too have narrowed. If the King doesn't act, he'll lose power, leaving them without a monarch to help preserve their rights in New Palestine...
Hussein should summon all the dignity at his command and announce he is stepping up, not out. He should turn Jordan into a democracy by redefining the monarch's role, passing his governing powers to parliamentarians elected by his subjects, and granting them freedom to run the country. After that, he should continue to rule as England's Queen Elizabeth does -- proudly. Absolute Arab monarchies are on the downside of history's curve, and Hussein, at least, knows it. In late 1989, to the chagrin of hereditary Arab monarchs, he ordered up Jordan's first real election for seats...
...only 21, he was hired by King James I as a court painter in London. A year later he was in Genoa, painting its nobles and dignitaries, making study trips to Rome, Florence and Palermo. By 1627 he was back in Antwerp, and by 1632 the new English monarch, Charles I, had brought him back to London, knighted him and made him "principalle Paynter in ordinary to their Majesties." For his last 10 years he moved between London, Antwerp and Paris, accumulating honors, commissions and fame. All in all, he was as genuinely international a painter as Rubens had been...
...role in World War II. But it coincided with the publication in the magazine Bungei Shunju of some recently discovered notes on conversations between Hirohito and aides in 1946, in which he discussed his role prior to Pearl Harbor. "It was unavoidable for me as a constitutional monarch," he said, "to do anything but give approval to the Tojo Cabinet on the decision to start the war." Had he opposed the attack, the result most probably would have been a coup d'etat. The country would have been violently and pointlessly divided because in any case war was inevitable...
Seven months after a series of bloody riots persuaded him to agree to end 30 years of one-man rule, King Birendra Shah of Nepal last week promulgated a new constitution that reduces him to a mainly symbolic monarch. Like a British ruler, Birendra would serve as a figurehead who could act only with the approval of a council and Prime Minister. But he could still declare a national emergency following foreign aggression, deep economic crisis or armed revolt...