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Boris Nikolayevich has an heir! No, the increasingly decrepit President Yeltsin hasn?t improbably sired a late-in-life son; on Monday he named his intelligence chief as his sixth prime minister in 17 months ?- and made clear that Vladimir Putin should succeed him as President. "Russians greet changes of government with a shrug, but the country is reeling on Yeltsin?s announcement that his new prime minister is his chosen successor as president," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "His vanity and self-preservation instinct has never allowed Yeltsin to previously name an heir...
...warning of some unnamed seer that he would not live more than 70 years. "During his recent meeting with Barak, Arafat was reported to be shaking badly and had great difficulty concentrating," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "And the fact that he has failed to prepare an heir has the Israelis and Americans very worried." Western governments have tended to turn a blind eye to rampant corruption and authoritarianism in Arafat?s Palestinian Authority, in the belief that he is the sole guarantor of the peace process. But that may turn out to have been a risky gambit...
...military?s concern to put an end to last year?s riots that led General Wiranto to gently nudge Suharto out of power and to commit the country to elections. But Suharto?s handpicked heir, President B.J. Habibie, and his Golkar party potentially have sufficient support in the electoral assembly -- due to set-asides for the military and regional representatives -- to block Megawati?s accession. Despite her call for Suharto to be prosecuted for abuses of power, there?s unlikely to be an accord on her taking the presidency unless she gives some guarantee of immunity to the masters...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. [*] 1960-1999 Not obviously a political heir; simply a man at ease with his extraordinary place in the world Carolyn Bessette Kennedy [*] 1966-1999 Her elegance recalled Jackie's, and she and her husband seemed embarked on a wonderful life...
...When Bush announced last week that he had raked in $36.25 million, the news instantly transformed the 2000 campaign. He had not only outraised his nearest G.O.P. rival, John McCain, 9 to 1, but raised double the $18.2 million collected by Al Gore, the sitting Vice President and Democratic heir apparent. And Bush is just getting started. On Friday, a top adviser confidently told TIME that the campaign's new fund-raising goal is $70 million by January--meaning that Bush will refuse federal matching funds and thereby be free from the state-by-state spending caps that mere mortal...