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Whether by fortunate accident or grand design, Juan Carlos, today's Harvard Commencement speaker, has guided his nation away from its reaction past to a fragile democracy. And it has happened in the eight and a half years since he ascended the throne. It is a Cinderella story, with happily ever after for the Spanish people at stake...
...king "blew everyone away," said assistant professor of government Terry L. Karl yesterday, instituting a constitutional monarchy immediately after ascending the throne upon Generalissimo Francisco Franco's death...
...Carlos had become the first officer in Spanish history to hold commissions in all three armed services--army, navy and air force--but since assuming the throne he has been, to Karl, a proponent of "non-military action...
...hero of the day was the Assembly's sergeant at arms, René Jalbert, 63, a retired army major who helped convince Lortie that he should give himself up. Approaching the man as he sat in the Speaker's throne, Jalbert offered him coffee and a cigarette and coolly remarked: "I see you're an army man. I'm an army man myself." Jalbert took him to his downstairs office, where, four hours later, a Quebec police negotiator persuaded Lortie by telephone to surrender. (He later pleaded not guilty to three charges of first-degree murder...
...Elis will put a perfect 4-0 league record on the line againt the Crimson's equally flawless 3-0 lvy state. The nation's 10th-ranked Bulldogs will be looking to put an end to the Crimson's three-year reign on the lvy throne...