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Died. Dr. Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 64, demagogic ruler of Haiti since 1957 (see THE WORLD...
...standing ovation, General Secretary Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, 64, clasped his hands together like a prizefighter. The 24th Soviet Party Congress was nearly over, and the outpouring of praise for Brezhnev was by all odds the closest that the Soviet Union has come to the adulation of a single ruler since the collective leadership overthrew Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. In more practical terms of power, Brezhnev also emerged with a tighter hold on the levers of Soviet authority. As the Congress went through the motions of electing a new Central Committee and Politburo, they chose mainly Brezhnev...
...major general and accompanied by an honor guard from his old regiment, the British Grenadier Guards. His plane, a chartered 707, was escorted by four Uganda air force jet fighters. When he landed at Entebbe Airport beside Lake Victoria, he was met by Uganda's military ruler, Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, and accorded an unprecedented 73-gun salute-21 for an ex-President, 42 for a former King and 10 more for good measure...
...striped package appears in his room. Unwrapped, it becomes a tollbooth; when he drives his kiddie car through it, he becomes part of a cartoon interpretation of C.P. Snow's Two Cultures. Head of the Verbal World is King Azaz; his dreaded brother and rival, the Mathemagician, is "Ruler of Numbers." A series of adventures eventually earns Milo the role of peacemaker: he rescues the maidens Rhyme and Reason from a castle prison, thereby eliminating the sibling rivalry...
According to Historian Paul Murray Kendall, Louis XI was a far more complicated character than legend implies. Possibly the most effective ruler France ever had, Louis was tough-minded and subtle, and so much of a political pragmatist and innovator that nobody knew quite what to make of him. Especially his feckless father. Lapped in beautiful women and dreams of martial acclaim, Charles snubbed and ignored the boy until, at the age of 16. Louis responded with a plot to seize the throne. It failed, but Louis had found his métier...