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...both the party and the Senate in 1969 with the tacit approval of Luis Muñoz Marín, founder of the party, architect of the commonwealth agreement and, more than anyone else, father of modern-day Puerto Rico. This year Muñoz campaigned for his protégé. Hernández reorganized the Popular Democratic Party from top to bottom, replacing older leaders with new, fresh faces...
...gulps straight from the bottle and his self-destructive binges have begun to overlap. This is the day that his wife (Holland Taylor) tells him that she is leaving him permanently for another man. More homo than hetero, Butley is further staggered to learn that his colleague-protégé is dropping him for another lover. To compound the bitterness, Butley's book on T.S. Eliot is getting absolutely nowhere. Butley is the human equivalent of a rotting apple in a rotting barrel...
AMITZUR SHAPIRA, 40, ranked as Israel's best track and field coach. A physical education teacher, Shapira had much to look forward to on the day he was killed: his most successful protégée, Esther Shahamurov, was about to run in the semifinals of the 100-meter hurdles. Instead, she accompanied her coach's coffin home. Shapira left a wife and four children...
After the dictator's death, Brezhnev owed his advancement to Khrushchev, who had recognized his abilities and loyalty in the Ukraine. Khrushchev entrusted his protégé with supervision of his vast "Virgin Lands" agricultural scheme and later made him a full Presidium member and gave him the prestigious but honorific title of Chief of State. Finally, Khrushchev gave him power second only to his own in the party. Thus entrenched, and now a master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall...
...revolt against Inönü was led by his protégé and heir apparent, Bülent Ecevit. When Turkey's elected government was toppled last year by a military coup, Inönü and Ecevit disagreed over the future course of party policy. Ecevit resigned as the Republican People's secretary-general, and Inönü, perhaps unwisely, called the party to an extraordinary congress last week for a vote of confidence. "Either you choose me or him," Inönü told members. By a vote of 709 to 503, they...