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Bhindranwale held out in what is described as "the throne of the timeless" in the temple's basement. His loyal followers took up positions they had been fortifying for months with sandbags, steel armor and bricks. When army troops finally stormed the defenses Tuesday evening, they met heavy resistance from rockets and machine-gun fire. Pinned down by a far superior, better-armed force than they anticipated, army troops called for reinforcements of tanks and artillery. After six hours, the machine guns fell silent and army sharpshooters closed in, backed up by troops with bayonets. When army troops finally...
...ability to lead, to hold his throne were questioned. As a Bourbon, he was scion of a royal line that had frequently failed. Both sides of the political spectrum prepared for the worst. His sure and simple belief in the inevitability of democracy for Spain was seen as political naivete...
What was most readily assessible was his princely biography. At age ten, Franco had negotiated a deal with his father Don Juan, the pretender to the throne, to raise the boy. He graduated from Sargossa Academy, the Spanish West Point, and spent a year at both the naval and air schools. He is the only man commissioned in all three service branches...
Since he took the throne November 22, 1975, the King has repeatedly demonstrated that his competence is as much fact as his life history...
...Craig G. Kennedy '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "The Romanov Relations: A Kinship-based Analysis of the 1613 Election of Mikhail Romanov to the Muscovite Throne"--Professor Edward L Keenan...