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...daily Khordad. The newspaper has published defiant antiregime opinions by prominent clerics, notably Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who has been under house arrest since 1997 for questioning velayat-e-faqih, the absolute authority of the clergy. In an explosive article, a young cleric, Mohsen Kadivar, even criticized the royalist tendencies of the clerics and their treatment of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei as a shah. Hard-liners feel particularly threatened, explains newspaper commentator Akbar Gangi, because the reformers have impeccable revolutionary credentials too and thus cannot be lightly dismissed or called traitors. Says Gangi: "We have a saying...
BANGKOK: Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh agreed today to end his armed resistance to Hun Sen, the nation's new strongman who ousted Ranariddh in a bloody coup July 5. Under the deal, reached by members of Ranariddh's royalist party and foreign ministers representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an economic bloc comprising several regional countries, military operations will cease and a caretaker government will be formed comprising the prince's party and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party until elections next year. The deal also gives King Norodom Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father, authority over the armed...
PNOMH PENH, Cambodia: Yeah, right. A clandestine Khmer Rouge radio broadcast claimed today that Pol Pot was captured Thursday night by a group of former comrades now loyal to Cambodia's royalist premier. Nobody's actually seem Pol Pot in captivity, of course, except the various groups that have claimed to hold him. Having just admitted they were wrong when they claimed to have captured him, Royalist government officials now are reluctant to say what they know. Meanwhile, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, the leader of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, coolly dismissed the news as another flimsy...
...night Prince Charles was born in 1948, my mother thought it important enough to wake me, then nine, to tell me the excellent news: "Elizabeth has an heir." In spite of the royal family's subsequent problems, my mother died a confirmed royalist. People of my generation, brought up in an era when the royals were generally very popular, find it difficult to imbue our children with that same enthusiasm. Most of us now know the royals are no different from other people. William, the "fresh heir," as you describe him, should be released from the kingship of his country...
...luxe marble mansion that he clearly did not buy out of earnings from his cafe. He is affiliated with Belgrade's biggest soccer club and appears at film premieres, in expensive restaurants, on TV talk shows. In an elaborate 1995 ceremony, where he dressed up as a royalist Serb officer, he took as his third bride the country's most popular folk singer...