Word: rulers
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain for 36 years, died early this morning...
Late last week the Prince bowed to intense pressure from Arias and other top officials. Juan Carlos accepted the designation as Spain's temporary ruler when Arias invoked Article 11 of Spain's Organic Law and declared that Franco was currently unable to function in office "in view of the circumstance of illness." Observed a European diplomat in Madrid: "It seems that the Prince is accepting temporary powers in the knowledge that they are in fact permanent...
Whether Generalissimo Francisco Franco lives or dies, it seems evident that Spain will have a new ruler by next week. While the end of Franco's rule marks, in one sense, the end of a symbol of fascism, it is not clear whether totalitarianism will continue under his hand-picked successor, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. Franco chose Juan Carlos to be his successor in 1969 to ensure "political continuity and stability." And it's good news that the future king--Spain's first monarch since 1931--has indicated that he's interested in bringing Spain into the European political...
...Ethiopia, had wielded virtually absolute power for almost six decades-longer than any other contemporary head of state. But when he was finally deposed in September 1974 by the military leaders of the "creeping coup," which had been enveloping Ethiopia for seven months, the tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) ruler was whisked away from his palace in a Volkswagen and imprisoned in a three-room mud hut. Only later was he moved to more comfortable quarters at the Grand Palace. It was there that the aged Lion, still caged, died in his sleep last week, apparently from the aftereffects...
...whom law is an instrument of perversion and prejudice are not sufficiently unexpected to require four volumes of explanation. What does fully justify Scott's endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the British community to avoid acknowledging the truth and the dubious morality of its presence as ruler of India. Kumar's own cultural alienation tends to make his case hopeless. He was raised from infancy in England, and he acquired upper-class speech and habits at a prestigious public school. The bankruptcy and suicide of his financier father forced him to return, destitute, to India. There...