Word: heir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silver-haired Chernenko, who was once thought to be Brezhnev's hand-picked heir, paused for a moment before the coffin of the man who had defeated him in the leadership race last time. Andropov's face was bony and drawn, his nose almost beaklike. His long ordeal seemed reflected on the faces of his wife, his son Igor and his daughter Irina, who sat near the flower-bedecked bier. While an orchestra played Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony in the background, Chernenko went up to Andropov's widow, kissed her and touched her gently on the shoulder. When Ustinov embraced...
...through Red Square in November and was named chairman of Andropov's funeral committee last week. Chernenko worked his way to positions on the Politburo and the Secretariat largely by serving as an aide to Leonid Brezhnev, and he was thought to have been his boss's hand-picked heir. But he lost out, probably when the military and party colleagues decided to back Andropov. Since then, Chernenko has given every appearance of being a team player; he nominated Andropov for the top party post after Brezhnev's death, and for President of the Soviet Union seven months later...
SENTENCED. Roger Gauntlett, 41, an heir to the Upjohn pharmaceutical fortune, who had pleaded no contest to a charge of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter, 14; to a year in jail and five years of "chemical castration" with Depo-Provera, which decreases the male sex drive and is manufactured by Upjohn; in Kalamazoo, Mich. With the drug, said Circuit Court Judge Robert Borsos, "it is now possible to castrate a man and at a future time reverse the effects." Both sides plan to appeal...
...important that people in the U.S. realize that there are important and evolving splits in Israel--that everyone is not the ideological heir of Begin--and that there is the problem of Palestinian Arabs which must be addressed, not ignored whenever possible. There always is hope in Israel, even when inflation runs at 190 percent. As Enoshi says, "The situation is like an infection of the body. It is coming out now into the open, and this can either mean that it will poison the body or the body will become cleansed. And what happens its the next year will...
Nothing seemed to symbolize the disarray and divisiveness more than the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. Bloody battles erupted in the streets between brutal police and young radicals, and the party nominated Hubert Humphrey, who privately was a critic of the war but who remained the public heir to Johnson's policies...