Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate revolt was directed not so much against Ford as against his predecessor and at what many regard as the clandestine tactics of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Still angered by the disclosure of the CIA's intervention in Chilean politics, Senators saw a chance to strike back when a resolution authorizing a temporary continuation of foreign aid came to the floor last week. A majority voted an amendment banning military aid to Chile. Then, by a much larger margin, the Senate voted to cut off military assistance to Turkey on the ground that U.S. weaponry had been used...
...General Motors (all but four in finance), Murphy, 58, took the final step in from the cold; the serious, spectacled accountant was named chairman and chief executive of General Motors, the most prestigious corporate post in the world. "Murph" will take office Dec. 1, a week after his predecessor, Richard C. Gerstenberg, who earned $923,000 in salary and bonus last year, reaches GM's mandatory retirement...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Caetano regime, supported his deputy; both were ousted from their posts. His following in the military is said to be as large and as loyal as that of Spínola's; he is also considered a better politician than his predecessor. The real winner in last week's shake-up is undeniably Gonçalves, 53, a quick-tempered, idealistic former army engineer who is widely regarded as the principal architect of the April 25th revolution. Says one longtime political observer in Lisbon: "Gonçalves has about him a little...
Perhaps the new President, convinced by the uproar over his predecessor's policies in Latin America, has decided that the time has come to implement detente in this hemisphere. Though Ford took a standard rightist line toward resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba while serving as House minority leader, there is no reason to doubt that he might not alter his stance, as he did on both China policy and the amnesty issue. It is reasonable to think that Ford is aware that the continuing exposure of American intervention in Chile can only hinder U.S. foreign policy. By allowing Javits...
COMPARED TO HIS predecessor, Ford's personal independence and that of his entourage certainly seem unimpeachable, enough to satisfy Diogenes or W.C. Fields that here, at long last, is an honest man. Nixon continues to affirm his innocence; Ford alludes to Nixon's having been "shamed and disgraced." Nixon's press secretary was a notorious liar; Ford's first press secretary resigned when he felt he'd become a party to deceiving the public. Mrs. Johnson came out for beautifying America; Mrs. Ford comes out for legalizing abortion and ordaining women ministers. When reporters in 1962 asked him if American...