Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President-for-Life and Supreme Chairman of the Yugoslav League of Communists. In accordance with a succession plan that Tito had arranged and approved, his titles devolved automatically on two little-known party functionaries who had been carrying out his duties since January: Party Chairman Stevan Doronjski and President Lazar Kolisevski...
...also makes dollars. When Paramount approached Agent Irving Lazar with a story about a terrorist attack on New York, he brought in clients Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins (O Jerusalem!). The result: The Fifth Horseman, which has earned the authors $500,000 before publication and filming. "It's a very natural trend," concludes Lazar. "It will be an inspiration to some writers...
...ways, the post-Tito era appeared to have already begun. The complex machinery of succession, based on a collective rather than one-man leadership, had automatically gone into effect following Tito's hospitalization. At the head of the nine-member committee-like State Presidency was current Vice President Lazar Koliševski, 66, a mild-mannered Macedonian who would become the country's first interim President upon Tito's death. He would serve until May, when another committee member would take over. Tito's functions as party chief were carried out by the current chairman...