Word: predecessors
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Spoiling Tactics. General Abrams has abandoned the tactics of his predecessor, General William Westmoreland, who made wide use of brigade and even division-size sweeps that sometimes left rear areas exposed. Instead, Abrams has developed a more flexible, diversified approach that employs smaller roving units. They can watch over more territory and thus spot and spoil enemy buildups in the making. Another hopeful sign: the South Vietnamese army has steadily improved throughout the summer, and its combat units are now fully equipped with U.S. M16s...
...Democratic Party will obviously need all of O'Brien's talents if it is to win in November. For more than three years, Lyndon Johnson has allowed the National Committee to fall into disrepair. While O'Brien's predecessor, John Bailey, languished at the committee headquarters ten blocks from the White House, the President in his personalistic style performed virtually all of his political maneuvers through members of his own Texas clique...
...competent, if not brilliant Governor. With the help of a newly apportioned Democratic legislature, released for the first time from rural domination, he pushed through a number of progressive measures. His accomplishments gained added luster when his record was contrasted with the mediocre one of his Democratic predecessor and the putative program of his segregationist opponent, the bumbling George Mahoney. More money was put into much-needed state services and state administration was modernized. With experience gained during four years as executive of Baltimore County, the populous (620,000) suburban area that surrounds the city of Baltimore, Agnew was more...
Despite all the problems, or perhaps because of them, Thieu and Huong seem to be working reasonably well together. The Premier holds far more leverage than Nguyen Van Loc, his predecessor whom Thieu fired, mainly because Thieu cannot afford another Cabinet change at this time. The President listens to Huong's suggestions although he does not always act on them, particularly when they involve corruption among the military or the subject of peace talks. Huong was upset when Peace Candidate Dzu was sentenced last month to five years at hard labor for advocating talks with the National Liberation Front...
...Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther, Gallic gumshoe Jacques Clouseau was played by Peter Sellers with his overfamiliar banana-peel approach to comedy. In Inspector Clouseau, Arkin follows meticulously in his predecessor's flatfootsteps, but the result is only a parody of a parody...