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- WORLD, Page 77World NotesNEPALRoyal Seal of Approval
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- Seven months after a series of bloody riots persuaded him to
- agree to end 30 years of one-man rule, King Birendra Shah of
- Nepal last week promulgated a new constitution that reduces him
- to a mainly symbolic monarch. Like a British ruler, Birendra
- would serve as a figurehead who could act only with the approval
- of a council and Prime Minister. But he could still declare a
- national emergency following foreign aggression, deep economic
- crisis or armed revolt.
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- The changes were set in motion last April, when
- pro-democracy protests toppled the King's handpicked government
- and he was forced to lift a ban on political parties. An interim
- coalition took office with a mandate to write a new constitution
- and hold elections for parliament within a year.
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