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...King's evidence, since they-and all Buganda-were well aware that the King wants to divorce Queen Damali so that he could marry his great and good friend, the Queen's unmarried sister Sarah, thus putting Sarah's two children in line for the throne...
During all his 55 years on the throne-the longest reign of any living monarch -it sometimes seemed as if King Sisavang Vong of Laos had found a way to survive history simply by ignoring it. He never openly fought for independence from the French, but instead of earning the resentment of his people, he won only greater affection. When the French urged him to take a firmer stand against the Japanese in World War II, he patiently explained: "My people do not know how to fight; they only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally...
...hope to be here next year," said Pope John XXIII, 78 this month, as he celebrated the end of his first year on the throne. "But if the Lord should call me, I am ready." The Pope greeted 162 villagers from Sotto il Monte, his birthplace in northern Italy, told the 15,000 gathered in St. Peter's that the year had "passed like a day," then prayed for peace...
...strategic Iraqi city of Mosul, and Bedouin tribes along the frontier had been organized into fighting units by Iraqi officers who had fled the brutal justice of Kassem's People's Court. From Jordan, where young King Hussein still dreams of succeeding to the vanished Iraqi throne of his murdered cousin, King Feisal, came reports of troop and aircraft movements toward the Iraqi border. And on Iraq's southern frontier, Saudi Arabian agents, anxious to prevent either Hussein or the Communists from taking power in Baghdad, moved among border tribesmen spreading money and promises...
...Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city in 715 B.C. Prolific Author Duggan has a legion of books and some 1,200 years of Roman history still awaiting...