Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amin Dada to power, and Big Daddy was ready to celebrate with the funkiest bash in East African history. In the reviewing stands at Kampala, a gaggle of Soviet Russians, Libyans, Cubans and representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization sat mesmerized by the show. Uganda army bagpipers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts marched by implausibly tootling Scotland the Brave. Undaunted by the number of invitations declined-notably by Henry Kissinger -the 300-lb. dictator exuberantly grabbed a spear and joined dancers in a local variant of the jig. After a speech in which he denounced the "Zionists and international bandits...
Government Reform. It is clear that the government needs all the grassroots support it can get. To engineer this, Bangkok is relying in part on the activities of the nation's fastest-growing volunteer movement, the almost 1.5 million-member Village Scouts. Sponsored by the royal family, the scouts preach loyalty to King, country and Buddhism. Besides seeking local allies like the scouts, field commanders claim to have learned from the failures of the U.S. and the Thieu regime in Viet Nam. "If the Thai soldier is corrupt," says an army major, "then the Thais will lose the same...
...There's going to be a battle royal," predicted one Republican official nine weeks ago when Mary Louise Smith quit as the G.O.P.'s national chairman. A wise forecast: the Republicans promptly began a raucous free-for-all-in the best brawling style of the Democrats-to decide who should get the job. Last week 161 members of the National Committee finally convened in Washington's Hilton Hotel and, after three ballots, settled on a compromise candidate: former U.S. Senator William Brock III of Tennessee...
...Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...
...Royal Polygamy. One section of the scroll provides a detailed prescription for the organization of the monarchy. The king was to have an army of 12,000 men (1,000 from each tribe) and an advisory judicial council (twelve priests, twelve lay leaders and twelve priestly attendants). The scroll also declares that "from his father's house [the king] shall take unto himself a wife . . . and he shall not take upon her another wife, for she alone shall be with him all the days of her life." This is the earliest prohibition of royal polygamy or divorce (Jewish kings...