Word: predecessors
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Panama's National Assembly, sitting last week as the jury for a high state trial, by a vote of 45-8 found ex-President José Ramón Guizado, 55, guilty as an accomplice in the assassination of his predecessor, José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The conviction was largely based on a confession by erratic Lawyer Rubén Miró, who admitted machine-gunning Remón at Panama's race track (TIME, Jan. 24), and implicated Guizado, Remón's Vice President. Panama will next prosecute...
...Japanese Diet candidate in history. The transfer of power from the Liberals of ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida to Hato-yama's Democrats was in great part a result of Hatoyama's personal popularity, his canny exploitation of Japan's disillusionment with his highhanded and distant predecessor, Yoshida. But, as Hatoyama was among the first to acknowledge, his mandate went far deeper than a change of personalities. In sweeping out the Liberals, the Japanese were sweeping away a regime that represented to the majority of Japanese a decade of meek complaisance to the commands and suggestions...
...Abstainer. In his speech Edgar Faure did not mention Mendès-the first time on record a Premier-designate had violated the tradition of praise for his predecessor. Mendès did not once join in the applause and he pointedly abstained on the vote. Later, when Mendès formally turned over the Premier's office to Faure, Mendès refused to be photographed in the traditional smiling handshake, ducked out of a side door, where he was cheered by 200 waiting supporters. Nonetheless, Edgar Faure was given a fair chance to survive a while...
...jeered at the way bureaucrats, during the regime of his predecessor Shigeru Yoshida, got together with wealthy industrialists "to play mah-jongg and golf and let their work go." He promised lower taxes and more housing. He promised trade with Red China and Russia, and said this would "create conditions which will contribute to world peace." The obliging Russians, not missing a trick, last week offered to start negotiations for normal relations at the place "the Japanese government considers most adequate" (Japan has already designated New York City as its choice...
Forced to juggle last year's record breaking mile relay team when Alan Howe pulled a leg muscle, McCurdy came up with a combination of holdovers: Dave Wharton, and Captain Bob Rittenburg. This team has already worked well enough to lower its predecessor's University record...