Word: yugoslavia
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...Hapsburg, lives in West Germany and writes and lectures. The leading claimant to the French throne, Henri d'Orléans, the Count of Paris, lives in the country that, but for history, he might have ruled. Even Brazil shelters a would-be monarch: Alexander II of Yugoslavia, whose father, the deposed King Peter, died of pneumonia in California...
...Freund also reported, after Henry Kissinger's November visit to Belgrade, that the U.S. might resume arms sales to Yugoslavia. Though reporters aboard Kissinger's plane published the information, the U.S. embassy in Belgrade suppressed Freund's report on the ground that an official American network should not encourage provocative "speculation...
...Winston Churchill? Was Welsh Actor Richard Burton trying a backhanded publicity stunt for the TV documentary The Gathering Storm, which starred Burton as a stringy, humorless Winnie and was aired to celebrate the centenary of Churchill's birth? Or was he playing protector of Fiancee Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, whose father, Prince Paul, handed over his country to the Nazis in 1941 and was publicly vilified by Churchill...
Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...
...their Chico, Calif., house for six weeks last spring while Burton filmed The Klansman, are now suing for almost $3,000, alleging that carpets, bedspreads and mattresses must be replaced. This is not the only moment past to haunt Burton. Just before he proposed to Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, he gave an English magazine a handwritten advertisement for a woman under 38 to bear him a child for a fee. Explained the actor: "The sound of a little son running around again would be the saving of me." The price offered, however, was considerably less than the $1 million diamond...