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After Gorbachev handed over custody of the nuclear arsenal and the codes that permit strategic missiles to be launched, Yeltsin declared himself sole inheritor of "the button," as he called the code box. "There will be only one button," he said. "The other republics are not going to have any other buttons." Even so, he said, he had agreed with the Presidents of the other three republics where the missiles are still located that any decision to use them would have to be made unanimously by the four...
More is written about that leadership style, however, than about her undeniable substance. Like her good friend Ronald Reagan, founder of his own ism, she grew up in a small town, the daughter of a grocer and the inheritor of strong, traditional values. She saw nothing but infamy in what she regarded as socialism's sapping her country's strength. She determined to give enervated Britain a good shake and force it to become an economic and political world power once again. Arriving at 10 Downing Street, she embarked on policies that would encourage self-reliance and reward hard work...
...Klerk has one enormous advantage over his predecessors: he is an inheritor, not a creator, of the system. His is the first generation of Afrikaner leaders who did not fight to impose apartheid in 1948. He also has had more intellectual contact with the outside world than his insular elders. "De Klerk," says a Western diplomat, "is younger-minded, more in the pragmatic mold than the ideological generation of Afrikaner politicians." Still, it was only after his surprise selection to succeed P.W. Botha -- De Klerk was the choice of the conservative Old Guard -- that he began to exhibit much willingness...
...official monopoly of power of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, proud inheritor of Lenin's mantle, vanguard of world revolution...
...everything afterward is "since the triumph of the revolution." Ten years ago this month, a victorious band of guerrillas who called themselves Sandinistas, embraced a unique brand of tropical Marxism, and promised to educate, heal and enfranchise the poor triumphed over the corrupt rule of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the inheritor of a family dynasty begun in 1936. The Sandinistas had ridden to power on an armed uprising, aided by a cutoff of U.S. support to Somoza and pressure from Nicaragua's Latin neighbors. Jubilant Nicaraguans believed their national darkness had been lifted at last. With Somoza gone, things would have...