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Hard-Line Objections. Papadopoulos favors the present draft. He wants to solve the problem of what to do with King Constantine by bringing him back from exile in Rome as a purely ceremonial monarch. He also feels that Greece is ready to return to constitutional rule, and that he has become popular enough among the Greek people to win a nationwide election that would legalize his government. The hard-liners believe that the revolution has not yet accomplished its task, bitterly oppose retaining any vestige of royalty. Papadopoulos may prevail upon them to let him bring out the proposed constitution...
...Swiss bank account that has dwindled to a mere $250 million, and has taken the hint from his brother, King Feisal, who deposed him in 1964, that he's not welcome in his homeland. In Greece, where he now hitches his camel, the 67-year-old monarch could not even summon a smile when his daughter, Princess Apta, 23, presented him with a new grandson named Abdul Aziz. There was good reason for Saud's glumness: he already has supported countless ex-wives, 45 sons, 46 daughters and perhaps 100 grandchildren...
...Monarch Industries, a Middlebury, Ind., manufacturer of mobile homes, met an even stronger reception: from an issue price of $6.50, its shares rose nearly 200% to $19 by week...
...mind. Its members are unlikely even to consider Constantine's return until they draw up a new constitution that will severely limit his powers and make him a figurehead. Last week Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos told a Dutch journalist: "We aspire to have a monarchy in which the monarch has no political power-a modern King such as there is in England, Sweden and The Netherlands. A King standing apart and above political parties...
Improbable as it may seem, no reigning monarch of Norway has ever visited the U.S. But now King Olav V, 64, is setting things right with a 17-day jaunt from coast to coast and back again. He met with L.B.J. in the White House, flew on to Florida, Texas and California, to Wisconsin's Scandinavian dairylands, to Chicago, and finally to Manhattan. There, he lunched with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller and the Governor's Norwegian-born daughter-in-law, Anne-Marie, in the Governor's apartment overlooking Central Park. He took in the big town...