Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia received a group of businessmen and TIME editors at his palace in Riyadh. Since King Khalid was ill and Crown Prince Fahd was out of the country, Abdullah, commander of the 30,000-man national guard, was the ranking member of the royal family...
...latest in a series that started on Oct. 10 when I.R.A. bombers blasted a bus carrying Irish Guards to their barracks, killing two civilian bystanders, injuring 22 soldiers and 16 other people on a Chelsea street. A week later, Lieut. General Sir Steuart Pringle, 53, commandant general of the royal marines, put his black Labrador, Bella, in the back seat of his red Volkswagen to take her to the park for a run. As he drove off, a bomb planted under the car exploded; Pringle survived but one of his legs was amputated. On a visit to the hospitalized Chelsea...
...Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, was their first formal appearance since their marriage last July and marked Diana's official debut on the job. The threeday, 400-mile journey by train coach and Rolls-Royce, was a wearying one, but it never showed on the royal brows. Diana plunged into her new duties with a zest that belied her past head-down shyness. At every stop, there were excited cries of "Princess Diana! Princess Diana!" Said Charles gesturing to his lady: "There's the person you've come...
...Little Margie, complete." The Consumer's cigarette stuck to his dry lips, and he burned his finger trying to rescue it. "Twilight Zone. Gilligan's Island and The Muppets for the kids. I videotaped the royal wedding but I erased...
...them want to go home and suck their thumbs." Disaster seems to threaten through disease or radiation or some vague Apocalypse Now that everyone fears but cannot give a face to. Some Americans still prepare for anarchy by retreating to the hills with automatic weapons, radiation detectors and the Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans for Physical Fitness; a few have taken to storing freeze-dried survival foods in their garages for a well-fed Armageddon...