Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with Enrile, Ramos spearheaded the weekend rebellion that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos last February. He took action after the Philippine newspaper Business Day quoted "high-level" military sources as saying that disaffected military men planned an operation, code-named "God Save the Queen," to purge the Aquino government of "left-leaning elements" while retaining Aquino as President. The coup was to take place before the Feb. 2 referendum...
...London Times called it a "fine old imperial sight." As the royal yacht Britannia steamed into Victoria Harbor last week, a shore battery fired a 21- gun salute. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip listened as the Royal Hong Kong Police Band struck up Memory. Fitting, that: it was likely to be the Queen's final visit to Hong Kong while it is a British colony...
Hong Kong is to revert to Chinese rule in 1997. China and Britain have promised that the colony's economic and political vitality will be preserved. Some residents are suspicious. Anxiety about the future could be seen at the races, where the Queen noted that a horse named 1997 was in the running...
What was that about "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"? Listen to the latest cares of that veteran traveler, Queen Elizabeth II, 60. She had dreamed for years of visiting China, and now that Britain has agreed to return Hong Kong to the People's Republic in 1997, the royal progress began last week. In Peking she reviewed an honor guard of the People's Liberation Army and enthusiastically joined the tourist crowds in the Forbidden City. Her hosts were so delighted with her that chain-smoking Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, refrained from puffing during their two-hour...
...thin with trudgery. At the reunion, the anguished smile she wears clashes with her old prom dress. "If I knew then what I know now," she muses, "I'd do a lot of things differently." Will she, though, when she gets the dream of a chance? Crowned the reunion queen, she grows woozy and faints. When she awakes, she is lying on a cot in the same gym, and it is 1960. Her old friends are her young friends now; her husband is a nice, gawky kid. And she is a 42-year-old woman, with all her experiences...