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...ruled Laos, if anyone can be said to have done so, for 17 of the past 20 years. A permanent government is to be chosen in general elections, though no date is mentioned. King Savang Vatthana, who is revered by leftists and rightists alike, will remain Laos' constitutional monarch...
Died. Gustaf VI Adolf, 90, King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Wends since 1950 and Europe's oldest monarch; in Helsingborg, Sweden. He was the sixth ruler in the 155-year-old Bernadotte dynasty founded by a Napoleonic marshal, and his death signals the end of the Swedish monarchy in all but name. By a constitutional change enacted during Gustaf's lifetime but delayed out of respect to the King, the throne of Sweden now becomes a purely ceremonial position. The scholarly Gustaf delighted in congratulating each December's Nobel prizewinners, amassed...
...function and ... to inform the public." For good measure, the committee lawyers projected themselves as preservers of the entire republican system of government: "Once the President becomes so immune by privilege that he cannot be reached by force of law short of impeachment, he will become much as the monarch from whom our form of government constituted a revulsion...
...KING OF SWAZILAND. Sobhuza II, "the Lion of Swaziland," now 74, is indisputably the most powerful of all the kings of Africa. Since winning independence from Britain in 1968, Sobhuza has ruled as a constitutional monarch. Annoyed by his country's British-imposed constitution, he abolished the document earlier this year and transformed the Prime Minister and Cabinet into what he calls the King's Council. He also abolished all political parties, banned political meetings and announced that he would rule by decree. From his 400,000 subjects came not a murmur of protest, not even when...
...exists between that place [gesturing toward the White House] and the people who were here today on the Mall, the citizens of 50 states come to see and touch their history, our history? The White House has become a royal palace, inhabited by a new, an American sort of monarch, and the people feel their powerlessness...