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...when Jordan's King Hussein was desperately struggling to preserve his throne, Radio Cairo kept up a steady and strident barrage: "Death to the traitors who rule Jordan!"-and suggested that Hussein "receive the same fate as his grandfather," who was assassinated. Similar chants have since poured forth against the leaders of Lebanon and Iraq. A recent sampler of Cairo's aggression by radio...
...King Abdullah, before Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock; legend has it that the boy stood erect and defiant as the King's bodyguard fell to the ground in fright. As a lad of 16, he had seen his mad father, Crown Prince Talal, removed from the throne. At 18, slight, down-mustached Hussein became King of the impoverished desert kingdom of Jordan. Most of his country's people-the 900,000 Palestinians incorporated into his kingdom after Israel became a nation-plainly felt no loyalty to King or kingdom. His most trusted army officers had proved...
...cousin King Feisal had been killed, his country's union with Iraq shattered by the Baghdad revolt. His own throne was in jeopardy, his own life in danger. At a critical moment when he still had no pledge of outside help and no firm assurance that his own troops would remain loyal, King Hussein I, a 22-year-old boy turned man, chose to hang on and to fight back. For sheer pluck and determination, no man in the Middle East surpassed him last week...
...midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), tanned, with close-cropped hair, Juan Carlos is Dictator Franco's candidate for the throne...
...XIII, who voluntarily left Spain in 1931 in the face of nationwide republican election victories, and died in exile. His son, the present Pretender, angered Franco by demanding that the dictator step down after winning Spain's bloody Civil War. Franco later declared Spain a monarchy, but the throne was left empty as young Prince Juan Carlos grew up in exile in Italy and Switzerland. The young prince returned to Spain to be educated at Madrid's St. Isidro high school, and word went out that Franco intended that after his death the boy should rule Spain. Since...