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This last king of France, heir of the progressive Orléans branch of the royal family, encouraged the country’s exploitation of the Industrial Revolution and the complementary extension of its overseas empire in Asia and Africa (Algeria had been occupied just before the 1830 revolution).
This led to civil war and the despotic rule of Octavian, nephew and heir of Julius Caesar whose new title of Augustus Caesar signified the collapse of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire in 27 b.c.
Some right-wingers have claimed that anyone with a good word for Malaysian capital controls (me in particular) is also in effect an accomplice in the imprisonment, on what certainly sound like trumped-up charges, of Mahathir's former heir apparent Anwar Ibrahim--an advocate of more conventional policies.
The Star weighs in this week with its theory that her death was the result of an assassination conspiracy among the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and Britain's MI6 to keep her from marrying department store heir Dodi Fayed.
With no Republican heir apparent, the 2000 race promises to be the wildest GOP primary in a generation.