Word: royals
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Last week Yamani's legendary power came to an end. In a royal decree, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz dismissed Yamani, 56, as his Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister, a post he had held since 1962. Planning Minister Hisham Nazer, a longtime Yamani rival, was named to take his place until a permanent new oil minister is named. Nazer's first official act was to call for an emergency meeting of the pricing committee of OPEC, whose 13 members include Nigeria, Venezuela and Indonesia, as well as seven Arab countries. The avowed purpose of the meeting, which...
...London Times called it a "fine old imperial sight." As the royal yacht Britannia steamed into Victoria Harbor last week, a shore battery fired a 21- gun salute. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip listened as the Royal Hong Kong Police Band struck up Memory. Fitting, that: it was likely to be the Queen's final visit to Hong Kong while it is a British colony...
...participants in this nighttime battle royal, however, insist that it is not a duel to the death. "We don't see ourselves as pitted against Johnny Carson," says Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., Rivers' corporate parent. "We're just aiming at improving the performance of the independent stations that carry us." Rivers, who roused Carson's ire last spring when she left for the competition without telling him first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just...
...sensuous, + imaginative life of Africa and a Western education, first at college in Ibadan near his village and then at the University of Leeds in Britain, where he earned a B.A. in English literature in 1957. After graduation he worked as a teacher and scriptwriter for London's Royal Court Theater, where some of his early sketches and short plays were performed...
...that about "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"? Listen to the latest cares of that veteran traveler, Queen Elizabeth II, 60. She had dreamed for years of visiting China, and now that Britain has agreed to return Hong Kong to the People's Republic in 1997, the royal progress began last week. In Peking she reviewed an honor guard of the People's Liberation Army and enthusiastically joined the tourist crowds in the Forbidden City. Her hosts were so delighted with her that chain-smoking Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, refrained from puffing during their two-hour lunch...