Word: patriarchal
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...patriarch was dressed like all the others in the hall, but there was no question about who was King. Some world leaders may have charisma, but Faisal emanates a dignity that stamps him as special. He looks older than 68. His face is deeply wrinkled, his eyelids droop. But, said a young protocol officer wearily, "we young men cannot keep up with him." The King stood to receive me in my turn, shook hands, spoke a few words of welcome and motioned me to a seat. He never smiled, though, or changed his facial expression. His answers to my questions...
Rockefeller related how John D. Rockefeller Sr., his grandfather, helped found the forerunner of Standard Oil while still in his 20s and, believing that "Providence had made him a trustee of his fortune for the benefit of man," gave $550 million for philanthropy during his lifetime. The patriarch's only son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., slightly surpassed that figure, spending $552 million for good works...
...calm was undoubtedly the result of a carefully orchestrated campaign by the military to discredit Haile Selassie. It reached a crescendo last Wednesday, the Ethiopian New Year and the day before the Emperor's ouster. For the first time, Patriarch Abuna Teweoflos of the Ethiopian Orthodox (Christian) Church did not mention the Emperor-head of the church to which half the Ethiopians belong-in his sermon. Instead, the patriarch asked God's blessing for the officers' movement. Later in the day the coordinating committee broadcast a scathing attack on Haile Selassie, denouncing him for erecting statues...
...monuments and held up banks and businesses all over Jalisco State, of which Guadalajara is the capital. Another group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, has also carried out a campaign of bank heists and kidnapings, while the Spartacus Leninist League last year murdered Monterrey's industrial patriarch, Eugenic Garza Sada, 82. Yet a fourth group, the Party of the Poor, led by a former schoolteacher, Lucio Cabañas, operates from the rugged mountains of Guerrero State near Acapulco, where it is successfully eluding 10,000 army troops. None of the guerrilla groups are believed to number more...
...area of the city where U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stayed during his May visit to Israel; the rockets were discovered before a timing device could activate them. The case is highly sensitive because of the interest taken in it by the Vatican and the Beirut-based Melchite Patriarch Maximos V Hakim. Israel's top leaders themselves will probably have to decide what to do with Capucci: deportation, or trial and likely imprisonment...