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...retire, you're finished," a crusty William Jovanovich often told his nail-biting subordinates. Yet last week, after 34 years at the helm of book-publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1989 sales: $1.8 billion), the 70-year-old iconoclast finally buckled. He passed his chairmanship to HBJ board member John Herrington, a former U.S. Energy Secretary. "The burden was too great, and Bill had had enough," explains another director. "He was also getting...
With Gorbachev leading the assault, Yeltsin was savaged at that meeting and at a later session of the Moscow party committee. In his book Against the Grain, Yeltsin reports that Gorbachev phoned later to offer him the deputy chairmanship of the State Construction Committee, which he accepted. Gorbachev then told him he would permanently be barred from politics. Writes Yeltsin: "It did not occur to him that he had created and put in motion a set of democratic processes under which his word as General Secretary ceased to be the word of a dictator...
...Does this imply a federation, with a central government? A confederation, with no central authority? An economic community? Gorbachev will have to decide whether he favors revising the present Union through legislation or dismantling the whole Soviet structure by writing a new constitution. He has taken for himself the chairmanship of the congress's Constitutional Commission and set a one-year deadline for drafting a new document. He told the Central Committee last month that the sooner decisions are made to define "the competence of the Union and that of republics," the sooner everyone will see "the enormous advantages...
...never worried about my chairmanship," Flood said. "You don't fire someone for being right, and I'm certainly not going to resign because I'm right...
...past decade, Deng Xiaoping shed so many of his titles that Westerners came to refer to him simply as China's leader. Last week he retired from his final official party post -- the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission, the party organ that oversees the armed forces and thus guaranteed him supreme power over the People's Republic. Deng's retirement, announced at the end of a secretive four-day party plenum that imposed a conservative agenda of economic retrenchment on the country, surprised Chinese and Westerners alike. Had Deng conceded political and economic momentum to the conservatives...