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...outward calm that marked his vacation last week, Morocco's 33-year-old monarch had problems on his mind. They had to do with the outcome three weeks ago of the nation's first legislative election in seven years of independence. Hassan had been proud to take this cautious step toward democracy, but he had also been confident that his own royal party, the F.D.C.I., would win an overwhelming majority of seats of the 144-member House of Representatives...
Hassan had some alternatives, none of them very pleasant: he could make his own coalition with one of the opposition parties, a solution difficult to achieve without losing royal face. Or he could declare a "recount" of votes and rig the results, a course repugnant to the idealistic monarch. Using the constitution he drafted last year, Hassan could even dissolve the House and forget about the democracy he had promised the nation. Wrestling with his dilemma, the King got little sympathy from the opposition. Jeered National Union Leader Abderrakim Benabid...
Voltaire, Diderot and others extracted from Locke what they chose, and the rational individual was enthroned as monarch of the universe. Never was the triumph of individualism more swiftly followed by disaster. In the French Revolution the Goddess of Reason danced in the streets?until she found herself at the foot of the guillotine. It remained for Napoleon to create from the Revolution the modern state (including the draft and the secret police) in which individual men are submerged in the abstract glory of the nation...
...multiversity "the day of the monarchs is past," Kerr declared. "Instead of the not always so agreeable autocracy, there is now the usually benevolent bureaucracy." A "monarch" cannot rule "several 'nations' of students, of faculty, of alumni, of trustees, of public groups...
Liechtenstein, with a population of 17,000 covering sixty-one square miles, remains the only survivor of the 342 states that once comprised the Holy Roman Empire. The House of Liechtenstein dates from the twelfth century, and Crown Prince Johann-Adam will be the thirteenth monarch of his line when he succeeds to the throne some...