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...country reported that children were breaking out spontaneously in tears and masses of stunned, flower-laden mourners were filing through the streets. Beyond that, though, the death also signaled a likely accession to power of the spectacularly mysterious Kim Jong Il, the Great Leader's son and anointed heir...
...grand scale, Beijing has been wedded to the fortunes of North Korea's founder, a man Mao Zedong embraced as a strong ally. Over the years the friendship sweetened and soured, but the alliance remained fast. Evidence that Deng Xiaoping's China was withholding approval of the designated heir was a potent signal. Of the dynastic passing of power, a Chinese academic remarked, "China cannot criticize, but we are not accustomed to this method." According to some reports, Deng advised Kim Il Sung in 1992 not to go through with the family legacy...
...official heir, former U.S. ambassador to Seoul Donald Gregg said he | is "a short, unprepossessing kid following a tremendously charismatic, long- tenured father, desperately trying to live up to him." In any case, as former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger noted, the changing of the guard "adds uncertainty at precisely the time we don't need it." Jong Il plainly will find some rough going in acquiring his father's stature. Noted Norman Levin, a senior analyst at Rand Corp. in California: "If Kim Il Sung said white is black, he could make it stick. No one now has that...
...could be a quick, happy fix for two media barons under pressure. Diller gets to make a network grow into a giant of cable, broadcasting and only he knows what else (theatrical movies? video games? TV serials for home shoppers?). And CBS gets Diller. In essence, to secure an heir, Tisch bought a company. And a legacy. "Larry gets to walk out," says the TV-industry executive, "not as a failure, but as someone who took the company and turned it around. Now he's a winner: he's probably $400 million ahead of his original investment...
...monarchy, Prince Charles' TV confession was a fiasco. It's hard to fathom how the embattled heir to the throne could replay 1992, the year his mother called her annus horribilis, but he has managed it. The tattle about his relationship with the married -- and Roman Catholic -- Camilla Parker Bowles had died down, but the scandal is back on the front page. Charles also showed a blithe disregard for his nation's constitution in revealing that he wants the coronation oath changed so he can be defender of all faiths, not just the Church of England -- breaking a 460-year...