Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching both antagonists from a hill were two companies of Royal Laotian infantry, ordered there by Laotian Commander in Chief Ouane Rathikoune, who depends heavily on his cut in the opium trade to buy the loyalty of his soldiers. When Chan tried to cross the Mekong in barges, the Chinese opened fire with everything in their armory. The Laotian commander tried to negotiate a truce and, failing, withdrew to watch the melee...
...dome. His sweat was understandable. Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, 54, until eight months ago the most powerful political figure in the Bahama Islands, was trying to explain just why he had been paid $1,800,000 by the operators of two lavish and controversial casinos. The money, charged a royal investigating commission, had changed hands both before and after the casino owners were exempted from the Bahamas' law against gambling, by the government in which Sands was Minister of Finance and Tourism...
Though Sir Stafford was the chief beneficiary, the royal commission's inquiry showed last week that well-paying consultancies were handsomely distributed among the rest of the U.B.P.'s ruling executive council-the body through which the islands' fate was firmly controlled for years by the white businessmen-politicians who are known as "the Bay Street boys." Sir Roland Symonette, the first Prime Minister of the Bahamas, signed on as a $20,000-a-year consultant to Grand Bahama's real estate developers. His son, Robert, an internationally famed yachtsman, also had a five-year consulting...
Double Trouble. Whatever they were, the consulting paradise ended, at least temporarily, when the Negro-dominated Progressive Liberal Party won control of the Bahamian House of Assembly last January. As one of his first acts, Negro Premier Lynden Pindling asked Queen Elizabeth to appoint a royal commission to delve into his campaign charge that government leaders had accepted questionable fees and that U.S. crime-syndicate members were taking over the casinos. Soon after, Pindling announced that three fugitive Americans, wanted on tax evasion and bookmaking indictments, who were forced out as managers of one of Groves's Grand Bahama...
...authoritative Burke's Peerage. The harsh terms of her morganatic marriage to the abdicated King Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred to as "Her Royal Highness" instead of having to scruff along as "Her Grace...