Word: monarchical
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...next few months will be an especially fragile period," CIA director George Tenet recently told the U.S. Senate. Pashtun royalists hope people will rally around former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, even though he has returned with the constitutional rights of an ordinary citizen rather than those of a monarch. But Afghanistan's volatile ethnic divisions are just as likely to turn the frail 87-year-old king into a symbol of division than one of peace...
...this, Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee Year, one question faces her subjects: What do you give a monarch who has (or has had) almost everything, including entire swaths of Africa? For Gibraltar, the best gift for a Queen whose dominion has shrunk in each decade of her reign would probably be loyalty. And in this outpost of the Empire, support for the Crown is still solid. As a rock...
...week especially important. He is going there to bring back the country's exiled King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, in an effort to reconstitute national unity. The King's 40-year reign, the country's last taste of peace and prosperity, was ended by a coup in 1973 while the monarch was in Italy for mud-bath treatments. At an interview with TIME, the King appeared in notably better health than he did five months ago, when world leaders began looking to him to help fill the vacuum left by the Taliban. Still, he is 87 years old. "But this...
...monarch also has some personal priorities upon his return. One of his first visits outside Kabul will be to a small farm 30 km north of the capital where he'd once grown grapes, melons and pears. After heavy fighting in the region, Zahir Shah doesn't know if the trees survived - or if they will ever bear fruit again...
...monarch spoke clearly and appeared in good health - notably better health than five months ago when world leaders began looking to him to help fill the vacuum once the Taliban fell. Zahir Shah said age is often the first factor visitors consider. "But this is the very reason for my return," he insisted. "I want to dedicate the last few years of my life to confront the difficulties in the land to which I belong...