Word: successors
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Frankly, I don't understand Bush. If he thinks we are going to get a neo- Stalinist successor to Gorbachev, how much better it would be for that successor to have far fewer weapons. I do not think he is waiting around for Gorbachev to be overthrown by students the way students are doing it in China. So I don't see what's holding Bush back, except that over the past 40 years the U.S. has, narrowly speaking, profited from a divided and armed Europe. It has given us a lot of political and military leverage. It is clear...
...many political jobs had been left vacant as a result of the struggle that by 1969 military officers held 40% of the Communist Party's key posts. By this time, though, Mao had a new threat to contend with: the ambition of Defense Minister Lin Biao, then his designated successor. The impatient Lin laid plans to oust Mao via the euphemistically named "571 Engineering Project," but his coup plot was discovered, and Lin died when the plane in which he escaped from Beijing crashed in Mongolia. After Lin's death, that most deft of diplomats, Zhou Enlai, reduced the army...
Although Horner's plans for next year have not yet been announced, she said last night she would be available to help Wilson make the transition to the Radcliffe job. Horner added that she has already been in contact with her successor, and will work with her over the next several months...
...rally surprised experts, most of whom had expected the dollar to drift lower this year. Their best explanation: a combination of high U.S. interest rates, which make the dollar attractive to foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from...
...last November's elections with impassioned attacks on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, but failed to sweep Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney out of office. Last week, conceding the need for "fresh leadership," Turner said he would resign after a date is set to choose a successor. Likeliest prospect: Quebec's Jean Chretien, a former Justice and Finance minister...