Word: monarchs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well, a ransom fit for a queen. Not that Elizabeth II was exactly ad venturing for booty, but when Britain's monarch returned home last week from a three-week tour of six Persian Gulf states, she brought back an assortment of trinkets worth an estimated $2 million. Quite a haul, even for someone who is reputed to be the world's wealthiest woman...
...Morocco may soon end. Last week his host, King Hassan II, formally recognized the Bazargan government. The crew of the Shah's royal 707 jet flew the plane, complete with its gold-plated bathroom fixtures, back to Iran. "If anyone offers you a job, take it," the gloomy monarch reportedly advised his dwindling entourage last week...
...assorted realms and territories, she was also His Royal Highness−honorary gentleman. Proclaiming her such was the Saudi Arabian way of solving a dilemma: women are strictly second-class citizens in one of the world's most conservative monarchies, yet great courtesy was due the first British monarch to visit their petro-peninsula. The Queen reciprocated by tailoring her trip to local custom. Royal Dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell whipped up frocks with longer sleeves and hemlines. Hatmaker Frederick Fox tacked scarves to her hats to suggest the face veils worn by Muslim women. Prince Philip nevertheless ignored...
That can be the most trying part about doing business in China. Marshall Goldberg, director of administration at Brooklyn's Monarch Wine Co., which will import Chinese beer and vodka into the U.S., recalls a telling episode. During Monarch's negotiations in Peking, disputes over how much advertising would have to be done in the U.S. got so prickly after three weeks of talks that "we walked away saying, 'Let's part in friendship.' " The Chinese, Goldberg recalls, then coolly "took us to the Peking opera that evening and the next morning...
...will set up a new revolutionary council for Iran. In so doing he risks a coup by an army whose generals, if not its soldiers, remain loyal to the Shah. He must pick up the numerous strands of opposition, united only in reverence for him and hatred of the monarch, and hold them together long enough to form a functioning government. It is a lot to expect from a spiritual leader wise in Koranic lore but woefully unskilled in Realpolitik. Perhaps aware of the huge risks involved, Khomeini after his return acted with uncharacteristic caution. Bakhtiar, for his part, kept...