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...KING OF DAHOMEY. Dahomey's tribal chiefs, unlike those of neighboring Nigeria, were stripped of power by French colonizers. Despite his titular position as President of Dahomey's "Customary Tribunal" (which is totally ceremonial), Togni-Ahossou Agoli-Agbo, now 61, has relatively little local authority. Spiritual head of the 1,000,000 or so Fons, the country's largest ethnic group, the King gets a small stipend from the national treasury. He gets by otherwise on gifts from loyal subjects as well as fees from camera-happy tourists who snap him in his royal robes and silver...
Still, the most composed person in Ottawa was clearly Queen Elizabeth, who is titular head of the Commonwealth but takes no part in the discussions. A British newsman suggested to her at a reception that "Commonwealth" was a rather drab word to describe the vast polyglot community of nations represented at the talks. "Well," Her Majesty replied, "we used to have a different name...
Over the past decade the AST has deserted its titular playwright eight times, but in so doing it has never gone back beyond early Shaw. Now it has reached back to the Restoration comedy of manners, and decided to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Wycherley play's first performance...
Under the constitution that Papadopoulos promulgated in 1968, which provides that the King is titular head of state, last week's announcement that Greece had become a republic was patently illegal. But it did not come as much of a surprise. Originally, the colonels had used the throne as a way of giving their rule some illusion of legitimacy. King Constantine's refusal to return to Greece from exile in Rome until democracy was restored had long since made a mockery of that claim...
Despite Hanoi's powerful military hand, Sihanouk is at least the titular political leader of the K.I. Also increasingly prominent in the movement is an elusive trio known as "the Three Phantoms": Hou Youn, Hu Nim and Khieu Samphan, all members of the Assembly, who dropped from sight in 1967 and were later reported to be ministers in Sihanouk's government-in-exile. Their names frequently appear on documents and in radio broadcasts; in a recent interview with TIME, Sihanouk said that Khieu Samphan is his Premier and head of government. There is some doubt among Western intelligence...