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Rival Groups. Not all of Feisal's worries come from without. He must also contend with his 40-odd half brothers, all princes, who are maneuvering to place their own man on the throne when Feisal, now approaching 65 and suffering from stomach ulcers, retires or dies. So far, the King has managed to play one faction off against the other. To hold their brotherly love, he also distributes monthly allowances ranging from $8,444 for minor princes to $333,000 for the officially designated crown prince, sees that they get "commissions" on every foreign investment in Saudi Arabia...
...Saigon government, relatively new to the throne, shows little interest in sharing power with anyone. If there is to be peace in the for seeable future, the United States will have to overcome Ky's obstinance and proceed in the real interest of both this country and Vietnam. The Administration must show itself ready to find a political solution, including a political compromise...
...leftists but also to break the power of the Greek Establishment. Under the new constitution, the monarch will no longer have power to appoint and dismiss Premiers or to promote and assign generals. He will, in fact, have none of the power that made it possible for the Greek throne to create its own mini-aristocracy of loyal retainers...
Just a Pump. For the surgeon who would transplant a heart, the problems are manifold and more difficult, with moral and ethical as well as medical considerations involved. Since ancient times, the heart has been apostrophized as the throne of the soul, the seat of man's noblest qualities and emotions-as it still is in poetry and love songs. But even the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano noted last week that "the heart is a physiological organ and its function is purely mechanical." In fact, the heart is nothing more than a pump. There is no more...
...many faiths, Spellman was, at best, a reluctant ecumenist. Nonetheless more than 100 Catholic bishops and almost 50 Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish clerics were present at the cathedral. Among them was Archbishop lakovos, Orthodox primate of North and South America, who was invited to sit on an elevated, canopied throne in the sanctuary. It was the first time that an Orthodox prelate had been so honored in New York...