Word: interregnum
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Denktash admitted that he had timed his announcement to take advantage of the interregnum in Ankara before Ozal is installed. "I caught them by surprise," he explained. "They would not have had me do this had they known in time." But his move was not taken solely with Ankara in mind. Denktash also sought to gain international attention, impatient as he is over the stalemate in negotiations with the Greeks. Moreover, some observers insist, he has personal ambitions. "He wouldn't be happy being the governor of a Turkish province [of a federal Cypriot republic]," said a Western diplomat...
...subordinate down as gently as possible. For example, when Secretary of State George Shultz urged him to attend Leonid Brezhnev's funeral in Moscow and talk to the new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, Reagan replied, "Gosh, is this the time to reach out on substance when they have their interregnum going on?" Comments Baker: "He makes clear that you don't lose with him just because you lose on a position...
...Historian Bertram Wolfe unwisely described Brezhnev as "an insignificant transition figure in a new interregnum." Initially, Brezhnev shared authority in a triumvirate with Premier Alexei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny. By 1973 he had elbowed aside any rivals for power. He placed allies in principal positions in the party hierarchy and increasingly emerged as chief spokesman for the Politburo. On trips abroad he was treated as head of state, even though he did not formally assume that title again until after Podgorny's dismissal...
...great deal of studying to do before he could begin to manage U.S. foreign policy through a period of potentially perilous transition. But his preparation time will be brief. The Senators who will conduct his confirmation hearings next week are well aware of the dangers of a prolonged interregnum hi the Reagan Administration's already discordant foreign policy-making machinery. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, after conferring with Shultz, predicted "a searching inquiry into his attitude toward the Middle East," but added...
That land was California, and the throne was controlled first by George Haines and his Santa Clara Swim Club and then by their heir apparent, Mark Schubert and Mission Viejo, with an interregnum at Arden Hills under Sherman Chavoor...