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Saddam Hussein was perhaps too wily--or paranoid or superstitious--to name a successor to his throne. But in recent years it had become clear that the heir apparent was his second son, Qusay, 37. In the prelude to Gulf War II, Saddam appointed Qusay to command the defense of four key regions, including the cities of Baghdad and Tikrit, the family's tribal home and power base...
...matriarch, towering over her scattered, resentful clan, eventually becoming the rice mother of the title: "The Giver of Life ? In Bali her spirit lives in effigies made out of sheaves of rice ? She is the keeper of dreams. Look carefully and you will see, she sits on her wooden throne holding all our hopes and dreams in her strong hands...
...historically the CIA has got into the most trouble when it strayed from intelligence gathering and analysis and into paramilitary operations. The CIA restored the Shah of Iran to his throne in 1953, and the resentment that followed helped spawn the Islamic revolution in that country. Then came the seizure of the American embassy in Iran and the hostage crisis that helped defeat Jimmy Carter. After that, in the 1980s, the CIA ran a not-very-secret war backing the contras in Nicaragua, which led to the Iran-contra scandal that tarnished the presidency of Ronald Reagan...
August 1953 In Operation Ajax, CIA officers in Iran engineer a coup against Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring SHAH REZA PAHLAVI to the throne. The agency's role soon becomes widely known...
...lamas, it's just the opposite. "Mostly when I come to Bhutan I'm supposed to play God," explains the youthful 41-year-old, "which has been such a frustration for me for so many years." What he craves, he says, is the chance to "climb down from my throne and speak to ordinary people. I wish I could go with them and talk with them, to a bar, a disco, dancing, whatever. But I still don't have that courage to do it." Here on the set, though, except for the occasional unannounced visits by devotees seeking his blessing...