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...Mohammed Ali Raja'i as the country's latest Islamic President. But France, the country that provided political asylum for four months to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and for years to some of his closest aides, two weeks ago gave haven to Raja'i's predecessor, the ousted Abolhassan Banisadr, and to one of the Iranian Islamic regime's most dangerous foes, Massoud Rajavi, head of the leftist guerrilla organization called the Mujahedin. Despite an agreement to refrain from political activity while in France, Banisadr has been issuing combative statements and preparing a government-in-exile...
...Connor is generally expected to fit into that shifting middle, as her predecessor Stewart did; thus her appointment, at least initially, is likely to be less decisive a factor than if she had replaced one of the men on either the left or the right...
...Bartlett Giamatti, 43, lovable but rumpled president of Yale, comparing himself with dapper Predecessor Kingman Brewster: "I don't have his beautiful suits, but I wouldn't look good in them...
...government turned out to be more of the same. Out of his 27-member Cabinet, there are 15 Christian Democrats, and they hold the key posts of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice, Treasury and Industry. Moreover, Spadolini this week presents a program to parliament much like that of his predecessor, Arnaldo Forlani. In fact, the Italian economy is so dangerously out of control that any government would have few alternatives...
Even so, Clausen may still have to back off from at least some of the super-generous loan proposals made by his predecessor. Before he stepped down last month, McNamara, 65, set in motion an ambitious program to expand World Bank lending, already at $12 billion annually, to a full $30 billion by 1985, Raising that much money may simply be beyond the World Bank's powers without huge infusions of new capital from...