Word: heir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planned visit this Sunday, May 5, to the military cemetery in Bitburg. West Germany containing the graves of 49 Nazi SS soldiers. The President has said this visit will be a celebration of American German "reconciliation." Though our country is a friend and ally of West Germany--the spiritual heir to those Germans who resisted Nazism-Mr. Reagan has chosen to honor instead the graves of Germans who perpetrated the evil of Nazism Certainly there are more praiseworthy people- Germans who fought for freedom and against hatred to whom we might have paid homage...
THOUGH BARRY ONLY HINTS at the reasons for his departure it seems that Princess Diana cleaned house after marrying the heir to the throne in 1981. All of Prince Charles' longtime servants--Barry joined the staff in 1967--disappeared in quick order. Diana had many problems adjusting, most of which were reported in the International Press. She fought incessantly with her husband, but Barry does his best to dance around these scenes. "Everyone at the Palace was worried that the fairy tale romance was going to collapse," he admits, but ultimately he tells little of specific quarrels-the type...
...family, "Iacocca and Henry Ford are alike." Iacocca, for instance, can be an unreasonably terrifying boss. Says one chewed-out executive: "He's vitriolic and explosive." Ford had Iacocca do his dirty work; former Chrysler executives say that Iacocca has relied on Gerald Greenwald, his vice chairman and suave heir apparent, to deliver the bad news. Iacocca's definition of management by consensus is revealing. "Consensus," he says, "is when we have a discussion. They tell me what they think. Then I decide...
...long as politicians deliver for their constituents. Former Governor Huey Long, the infamous "Kingfish," presided over a scandal-ridden administration in the late '20s, but he also built schools and roads and soaked the rich to give to the poor. Edwards, 57, the son of a Cajun sharecropper, is heir to Long's populist legacy. He helped to streamline the Louisiana constitution and reorganize the state bureaucracy...
...dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective agreement. Adds Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Soviet expert at Washington's Brookings Institution: "How could it be otherwise when it is an autocratic, dictatorial, almost monarchical system? The only difference is there is no biological heir...