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...same area); in a small, underdeveloped country like Botswana (while much of the region lives under one-party rule). But to assume that we can bring democracy to other lands by throwing a switch or withdrawing support from a dictator evokes the image of the divine-right monarch ready to "give" a constitution to his people. Democracy can be helped and nurtured, but it cannot be given. It was imposed on Japan and to a lesser extent on West Germany by American occupation ! forces, but that happened in the exceptional and transforming circumstance of crushing defeat. Democracy must grow organically...
...EDUCATION OVERSEAS. NOW 18, MAKHOSETIVE BROKE OFF HIS STUDIES TO RETURN FOR THE CORONATION CEREMONIES. APPEARING AFTER A DAY OF SECRET RITES, THE NEW KING DID NOT SPEAK BUT WAVED SHYLY TO THE CROWD AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM MORE THAN 30 NATIONS. ONE RITE OF PASSAGE BEHIND HIM, THE YOUNG MONARCH...
Jordan's King Hussein had hoped to become the architect of a successful Middle East peace agreement involving Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization as well as his own kingdom. But the Hashemite monarch has seen his plans crumble in the face of P.L.O. intransigence. Happily Hussein's designs are doing better at the royal palace in Amman. The King, 50, and Queen Noor, 34, the former Lisa Halaby of Washington, recently welcomed a fourth child into their fold when Princess Raiyah al Hussein, or Banner of Hussein, joined the Princes Hamzah, 5, and Hashem, 4, and Princess Iman...
...Peter the Great of Russia set out on one of history's most momentous vacations. The towering (6 ft. 7 in.), charismatic monarch became the first Czar ever to venture peacefully outside his country, traveling for 18 months to the major capitals of Western Europe. He absorbed Western ideas and technological know-how and returned to guide Russia into the modern world...
...great and brutal warrior in his day and now the monarch of all he surveys from the windswept hilltop where his hunting party has paused to rest, announces a plan he has long contemplated. It is time, he says, to renounce his power. He will divide his holdings among his three children and appoint the eldest head of his house. The youngest, the one who loves him most selflessly, resists the idea and is angrily banished from the realm. By the time the ensuing tragedy has played out, the patriarch is a madman wandering the wilderness, all three children...