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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines. Neto is an assimilado, meaning a Portuguese-speaking Angolan who in colonial times had the same privileges as a European. His wife Maria Eugenia da Silva is white?a fact that prompted the appearance of mysterious posters in Luanda demanding "Morte a rainha branca " (Death to the white queen). An unsuccessful coup last year led by former Interior Minister Nito Alves, an Angolan black, may have been triggered by the ethnic split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Savimbi's Shadowy Struggle | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

DIVORCED. Princess Margaret, 47, younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; and Lord Snowdon, 48, a photographer raised to the peerage after their Westminster Abbey wedding; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in London. The routine two-minute court hearing granted the first divorce to an immediate member of the British royal family since 1540, when Henry VIII divorced Anne of Cleves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Unlike Hussein's Jordanian-born third wife. Alia, who died in a helicopter crash 15 months ago, Lisa will not, at least initially, be named Queen. Instead she will be a princess, with the Arabic name Nur el Hussein (Light of Hussein). Raised as a Protestant, she will convert to Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Hussein's New Light from America | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter of a prominent Jordanian family. The third wedding took place when the second divorce was made public, and Alia became Hussein's first Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Hussein's New Light from America | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Bangles and chains, a head scarf, a few phrases of Romany and presto, Shelley Winters is an ample gypsy queen in King of the Gypsies. Based on Peter Maas' saga about gypsy life in America today, the film describes the stormy succession to the throne of King Zharko (Sterling Hayden). During the shooting of a scene at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Winters decided to see how authentic she looked. Sauntering over to diners in the Palm Court, she offered to tell their fortunes and was swiftly chased out by the management. Later came revenge. Winters watered the palms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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