Word: queene
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...years he had kept his guilty secret, with the help of successive British governments and possibly even Queen Elizabeth II. But early this month a new book by Journalist Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason, claimed that there had been a "fourth man" in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby spy ring of the 1940s and early 1950s. Boyle, who apparently drew heavily on sources formerly in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, even hinted broadly at his name, prompting questions from Labor members in Parliament. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replied with a written statement that essentially admitted...
...welcoming speech by the Premier, she said that Americans were "filled with alarm" over the thought "that the Cambodian people are facing extinction as a result of war and famine." The next day, at high tea with the royal family at their palace in northeastern Thailand, she handed Queen Sirikit a check for $100,000 to help pay for medical supplies...
...Bette Midler, self-styled queen of "trash with flash," The Rose is an ideal throne. -Frank Rich
...transcripts uncovered last month at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kans., by Rice University Historian Francis Loew-enheim, Ike taped 27 conversations between 1953 and 1958. His conversational partners were legislators, journalists, aides, businessmen and heads of state, including Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Greece's Queen Frederika. The recording machine itself, which resembled a supply cabinet, was installed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the nearby office of Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann Whitman. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and some other officials knew of its existence, but most who were recorded apparently...
...notes or dictated his recollections afterward. Whitman, who transcribed many of the tapes, points to the machine's deficiencies. After typing the first summary in 1953, she typed at the bottom that ''large portions of the tape were completely garbled.'' Five years later, when Queen Frederika visited the Oval Office, the recorder was still not cooperating: the transcript simply notes that Her Highness's remarks were ''inaudible...