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Change is stealing into all the desert kingdoms of the Persian Gulf, but nowhere else has it proved as beneficial--though fraught with palace intrigue--as in tiny, thumb-shaped Qatar (pop. 500,000). Eighteen months ago, Hamad, trained at Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy, was merely an heir apparent. Then he staged a bloodless coup that ended the 23-year reign of his father Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, 64, who had developed an unseemly fondness for liquor and opulent palaces. Since then, Qataris have witnessed one of the bitterest Arabian family spats in memory, involving cash...
...case. His gaze is clear, steady and morally complicated. He has been drawn all his life to military culture and the subject of war. Complications from a teenage case of tuberculosis left him lame, unfit for military duty. But he went on to teach military history at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, for many years -- a soldier's life by association, at an intellectual remove...
...moves to upgrade the military have been under way for a decade, Moscow has grown more desperate in recent years. "The acceleration of high technology in weapons threatens the whole Soviet concept of war with obsolescence," says Christopher Donnelly, director of Soviet studies at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Every Soviet service has turned to technology in a faltering attempt to keep up. Though not always state of the art by Western standards, lasers, computers and satellite technology have been brought into the arsenal and forced officers and troops to deal with complex new weapons...
DIED. David Niven, 73, Scottish-born actor and author, who defined debonair for millions of moviegoers; apparently of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the progressive neuromuscular disorder often called Lou Gehrig's disease; at Château-d'Oex, Switzerland. A Sandhurst graduate and veteran of four years with the Highland Light Infantry, Niven resigned his commission in 1932 and became a New York liquor salesman. Influential acquaintances lured him to Hollywood, where he signed a seven-year contract with Movie Mogul Sam Goldwyn, despite having almost no acting experience. Niven served with distinction as a British commando officer...
...mother, née Jennie Jerome, provided another legacy: absolute self-absorption. By one account, she took 200 lovers, and after Randolph's early death from syphilis married a former Scots Guardsman 16 days older than her son. As a boy, Winston made few friends at Harrow or Sandhurst, but his self-confidence remained unshaken. At 32, the young Under Secretary of the Colonial Office stated, "We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm...