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...monarchy; later he decreed that within eight days of his death his power would devolve upon Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 37 (see box page 26), who as King of Spain will ascend the throne vacated 44 years ago by his grandfather, Alfonso XIII. Yet few observers expect the inexperienced, untested Prince to be able to control the political forces that will certainly be unleashed by Franco's departure...
Died. Don Jaime Borbón y Battenberg, 66, pretender to the Spanish throne; following a stroke; in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Son of Spain's last monarch, the syphilitic Alfonso XIII, Don Jaime was born a deaf-mute. He eventually learned to speak four languages, led a sybaritic life, mostly in Italy, after his father was forced to abdicate in 1931. Don Jamie renounced his claim to the Spanish throne in 1934, but began having second thoughts in the '50s as aging Caudillo Francisco Franco vacillated between Borbón claimants who he hoped would restore the monarchy...
...into heroin for distribution in the U.S. and other countries. Police seizures of as much as 50 kilograms (110 lbs.) of heroin were common. New York detectives two weeks ago captured 165 lbs. of Turkish-derived heroin (street value: $113 million) that was stashed in a shipment of Louis XIII furniture being sent to the U.S.; the heroin had apparently been processed before the French connection was broken and had been stockpiled for later sale. So far, narcotics seizures in and around Amsterdam have been much smaller; officials reckon that the Dutch drug traffic is less than one-fourth...
...uncertainties and imponderables that lie ahead for Spain, none is more baffling than the personage of Prince Juan Carlos Alphonso Victór Maria de Borbón y Borbón, grandson of King Alphonso XIII of Spain and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria of England. He was chosen by Franco in 1969 to ascend the throne after his death, in the hope that the royal scion would assure an orderly succession and maintain the stern, one-party system that the dictator had created. Whether the enigmatic Prince, 36, can meet these hopes is as problematical...
Dumas' story has a prodigal range of appeal: the grandeur of the court of Louis XIII; the scandalous romance between his Queen and England's Chief Minister, the Duke of Buckingham; the political intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu; and most of all, the high-flying exploits of young Musketeer-Aspirant D'Artagnan and his three companions as they battle to foil the Cardinal's schemes and thus cover themselves with glory, honor and material reward...