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...coming weeks--and indeed for the coming year--Norway may be, in effect, leaderless. Certainly the legitimacy of those in leadership positions will be questioned. If the anti-Marketeers actually form a Government (resigning Prime Minister Brattell will ask that his Center Party predecessor, Mr. Borten, make the attempt), that Government will represent considerably less than one-third of the Parliament. But no other alternative seems possible if neither Labor nor the Conservatives are prepared to refute their prereferendum positions and pledges...
Higginson acknowledges that he has a tough act to follow, but he is not overawed by the success that Gladstone amassed, nor is he concerned with the inevitable comparisons that will be made between him and his predecessor...
...rumors that Gund Hall might never be built. A second committee--with an equal number of faculty and students--had been organized to investigate complaints about the project and a three-month inquiry into the feasibility of Gund Hall began. Although the committee eventually reaffirmed the program of its predecessor, the inquiry generated a great deal of bitterness between the faculty, the design firm, and the students...
...Neither Peng Teh-huai, Lin's predecessor as Defense Minister until his ouster in 1959, nor Head of State Liu Shao-chi, who was purged in 1966 but has still not been replaced, was ever officially designated heir apparent, as Lin was, but each had worn the mantle of succession for several years preceding his political demise...
...press conference last week, President Nixon hit back at the accusers, taking a particularly sharp slap at Waldheim, whose charges he described as "hypocritical." Added the President: "I note with interest that the Secretary-General, just like his predecessor, seized upon this enemy-inspired propaganda." Nixon vigorously defended his bombing policy as "restrained," and said: "If it were the policy of the U.S. to bomb the dikes, we would take them out, the significant part, in a week. We don't do so because we are trying to avoid civilian casualties, not cause them." Actually, that judgment in part...