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...sequel does not depend on a familiarity with its predecessor, but such knowledge can hardly hurt. It is helpful, for instance, to understand that Piers Aubrey, who has deserted his wife and four children shortly before This Real Night opens, was not simply "a gambler" as he is subsequently described, but a crusading newspaper editor with a penchant for ruinous plunges in the stock market. Members of his family mourn the disappearance of a good man and suffer at the realization that his reason for departing was accurate: they are better off financially without...
...headlines and photographs of naked women, and the equally lowbrow Sunday News of the World. As proof of his good intentions, Murdoch recruited Harold Evans, for 14 years the esteemed editor of the separate Sunday Times, to run the daily edition; within 13 months, Murdoch sacked him. Like his predecessor, Murdoch confronted unions and threatened to shut down forever...
...monolithic authority. Veteran observers in Moscow quickly decided that Chernenko's purported answers were probably the work of Leonid Zamyatin, head of the Central Committee's international information department. But Lomeiko's bland suggestion concerning Chernenko's whereabouts was eerily similar to the explanations given out about Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months. Just a few weeks before his death, Andropov was said to be recuperating from a slight ailment. A similar denial was issued shortly before Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov died from a heart attack...
...problem, as always, is how to evaluate the ephemeral evidence. Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...
Contrasting Archbishop Law with his predecessor, the state Cardinal Humberio Medeiros, Powers says the new leader can deliver "quality pastoral service to the people" since he is not burdened by the archdiocese's enormous debt--which Medeiros liquidated through rigid fiscal policies...