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...cancel trips abroad. Not a single leaflet appeared in Jordanian army barracks, nor did the refugees pay any serious attention to the vicious personal attacks on the royal family. The people and the government take their own works too seriously to have time for this polemical nonsense, and the throne in Jordan has proved a symbol of unity and a source of faith that is far beyond the reach of any "repercussions...
Mwami Mwambutsa IV, the Watutsi ruler of the kingdom of Burundi, did not seem like a man who would easily part with his throne. In fact, when the rival Bahutu tribesmen attempted to overthrow him last October, the Mwami and his men struck back so ruthlessly that at least 86 Bahutus were executed, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament. Last week it seemed that the Mwami had lost his throne just the same. Not to the Bahutus. To his own son, Prince Charles Ndizeye...
...couple had been praying for a child ever since they were wed in 1960. The devout husband even made a pilgrimage to Lourdes. All to no avail-until last week, when Belgium's King Baudouin happily announced that his beloved Queen Fabiola, 38, expects an heir to the throne this winter. The news was kept a strict secret until the fragile Queen had passed her critical third month, since she had been bitterly disappointed by three early miscarriages in the past. And as Fabiola canceled all engagements for the duration, all Belgium hoped for a safe accouchement...
...show up have been arrested. There was no doubt about it; Hussein was in trouble. Everyone was watching the signals from Cairo. So far, Nasser had not publicly and personally come out against the plucky little King. If he should, the repercussions could shake Jordan's throne to the roots...
Ensconced among the green malachite columns and crystal chandeliers of Catherine the Great's throne room, Brezhnev launched into a lengthy, violent diatribe against West Germany-a "revanchist" state, which 25 years ago last week had invaded Russia, that has not yet accepted the postwar Oder-Neisse frontier and, moreover, now demands nuclear weapons. French aides noted signs of Gaullist irritation: the general's nods came with such regularity that he resembled a ticking time bomb and his hands clenched tight on the carved Romanov griffins of his chair. De Gaulle's response would have pleased...