Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schedule, the President will place a wreath at New Delhi's Rajhat shrine to Mohandas Gandhi, outline to the Indian Parliament his hopes for helping the world's poor and explore with Prime Minister Morarji Desai ways to improve U.S.-Indian relations. Under Desai's predecessor, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi warmed up to the Soviets and cold-shouldered the U.S., particularly after President Nixon's "tilt" in favor of Pakistan during the 1971 war with India. Desai and Carter will talk about how the U.S. could aid the Indian economy. The President is also expected...
...Hrdy, 31, portrays langur life as a "soap opera" that revolves around the struggle between the sexes. As in other species, the strongest males compete for control of each troop. What makes the langurs different is that the winner tries to bite to death the young offspring of his predecessor. The mothers resist the infanticide until the struggle looks hopeless, then pragmatically present themselves to the new ruler for copulation...
...chin makes him look more tense than he really is. An alert aide is always close by to pass him a fresh white handkerchief to dab his face. Perhaps because he has had a minor heart attack, Sadat does not work too hard. He still recalls that his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was signing letters until 3 o'clock in the morning the day he died of a heart attack. "Sadat doesn't have the stamina to be a dictator like Nasser," says an aide who has worked closely with both...
That lightning move solidified Sadat's hold on the country and gave him the confidence to turn away from Nasser's sweeping pan-Arabism and to abandon his predecessor's repressive socialist state. Sadat later felt bold enough to tell colleagues that he felt Nasser had been a disaster for Egypt: the wars, the large Russian presence, the seizure of property, the elimination of the private sector, the concentration camps. In a public ceremony, with Sadat in attendance, the Interior Ministry's large collection of taped conversations was burned. The government began returning private property...
...marked physical contrast to Kingman Brewster, his elegant and patrician predecessor, Giamatti is a chubby, shortish man, much given to wearing rumpled slacks and sports jackets topped on occasion by a Boston Red Sox cap. He is a baseball nut who recently explained that he never wanted to be president of anything except the American League...