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...there is no guarantee that Don Juan will ever get the call. A believer in representative government, he has never approved of Franco, and for good reason refuses to live in Spain: he does not want to be under the shad ow of the Caudillo. As a result, he is cordially distrusted by many Franco stalwarts. Much more manageable, they feel, would be Don Juan's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 27; Franco sent him through Spain's three military academies and gave him a Madrid palace after his wedding to Greek Princess Sophie. Trouble is, Juan Carlos...
MARYLAND'S restaurant overlooks a fisherman's wharf, features terrapin, shad roe, and Southern-style fried chicken...
...angling encyclopedias. There is the bobo, or bubblefish, an elusive silverside that dwells in the rapids and attacks a wet fly like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself spectacularly ta death when hooked. And there is the lavender-hued guapote, a tasty pan fish that weighs anywhere from 2 to 12 Ibs., can sever a sturdy" wire leader with one crunch of its needle-sharp teeth...
...Genial Shad Tubman rules Liberia through his True Whig Party and by the judicious use of jobs and "dash"-the local word for payoffs for favors-to keep the important 20,000 Americo-Liberians happy. He has also originated a unification policy intended to pass out political and economic plums to the hinterland tribes and was the first Liberian President to give them representation in the legislature. Half of the U.S. development grants of $8,600,000 a year is earmarked for teacher training and the construction of schools. Tubman quite frankly caters to the Liberian love of status...
...final ringing sentence: "I enter upon the execution of the sacred task to which I have been called for the fifth and, I earnestly hope, for the last time." That brought stunned, unbelieving silence, for clearly most of the thousands in the audience fully expect that Uncle Shad will go on ruling Liberia forever...