Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...royal tapes real fakes...
...Prince to embarrass the monarchy. But Regan insisted that he had not authorized their sale. As Die Aktuelle's staff tried to peddle the transcripts on both sides of the Atlantic (asking price: $50,000), palace reaction was swift-and angry. "If this is true," rumbled a royal spokesman, "this is a bad day for journalism." The palace won an injunction from Britain's high court forbidding Regan from "disclosing, divulging or making use of the contents of the tapes of the telephone conversations or publishing transcripts of them." Mid rumors that British papers wanted to publish...
...Horkenbachs of Royal Oak, Mich., agree. "We hated it," says Renette, 31, of her family's seven-month, $7,000 experiment in Sunbelt living. In Houston, her firefighter husband "had to pay extra to get us on his health insurance," their utility bills were "exorbitant," and Yankees were unpopular. So when Robert Horkenbach was offered his old job back in Royal Oak, he took it. "No way" will they again leave their familiar Michigan turf, says Renette-even though Robert again faces a familiar Michigan layoff. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Christopher Redman/Detroit and Robert C. Wurnrtstedt/Houston
Buckingham Palace may have lavish plans for Prince Charles' wedding, but it will have to go far to top a style of royal nuptials unusual even for fabled Arabian sheikdoms. For the wedding of his eldest son Mohammed and his bride Princess Salama, Sheik Zayed, the President of the United Arab Emirates, threw a $40 million bash in Abu Dhabi...
...overjoyed 2½ years ago, when the National Cancer Institute announced that it would sponsor human testing of the controversial cancer therapy. Last week the first results were reported at a meeting in Washington of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and they gave the apricot-derived substance a royal raspberry. Said N.C.I. Director Vincent DeVita Jr.: "The findings ... present public evidence of Laetrile's failure as a cancer treatment...