Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's visit served to highlight one of the country's more ambivalent foreign involvements. A top State Department official calls it one of Washington's "most complex relationships." On one side of the ledger, the Shah symbolizes much that the Carter White House opposes: royal posturing, human rights violations, prodigious arms spending and an oil price hawkishness. But he also rules a nation that is strategically important to the U.S., both because of its military geography and because of its oil. Moreover, he has done a great deal to advance Iran's standard of living...
...nationwide strike, ordering the country's 32,000 full-time firemen not to answer alarms. The government of Prime Minister James Callaghan rushed in 10,000 soldiers, most of whom had received only a few days training in rudimentary fire fighting. At week's end 33 Royal Air Force fire teams were dispatched to 13 cities to aid beleaguered soldiers. Thanks to the valiant service of the emergency recruits, no major catastrophe had occurred, and no deaths were directly attributable to the strike-but the danger was there, hour by hour...
...Minister James Callaghan is struggling to keep pay raises no higher than 10%, Parliament last week awarded Queen Elizabeth an 18% hike in her allowance-to $3.4 million. Besides the toll of inflation, said a palace spokesman, "there have also been extra costs due to the Silver Jubilee." Other royal coffers will get some extra coins as well. The Queen Mother is to get an additional $27,000, bringing her allowance up to $279,000, and Princess Margaret, who was awarded a $9,000 raise, now receives $99,000. Princess Anne gets $90,000, upped from $81,000, which will...
...fencers swing into action this week, with the men facing England's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, tonight at 7:30 in the IAB. The women square off with Rhode Island College tomorrow night in Rhode Island...
...twelve, Lombardo recruited his brothers Carmen and Lebert for a small band that played for dances in London, Ont. After a so-so success, they were invited to play at an Elks' convention in Cleveland and stayed on in the U.S. Billed as Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, the group developed a smoothly distinctive sound that was heard coast to coast on radio, sold over 100 million records and introduced some 600 hits including Boo-Hoo and Little White Lies. Cheerfully ignoring critics who called his music 'corny," Lombardo survived as the last great dance-band leader...