Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little-known men who automatically succeeded Tito in his two national posts-Communist Party Chairman Stevan Doronjski, 60, and State President Lazar Koliševski, 66-eulogized their predecessor profusely. Said Koliševski at graveside: "You have left in your wake one of the deepest traces that a man can imprint upon history." Doronjski praised Tito's dramatic break with the Soviet Union in 1948 as "one of the turning points in the history of our movement," which ever since, he said, has resisted "tying itself to any power bloc...
...Jimmy Carter wants as his new Secretary of State, not surprisingly, disagrees with his predecessor on the issue that precipitated Vance's departure -the aborted raid to rescue the hostages. "I'd be disappointed if that option had not been explored and tried if feasible," says Ed Muskie. But he adds that he does not feel "comfortable" with the military options and believes the side effects entail "pretty high risks." Though he has no exact formula as yet, the Senator from Maine would like to offer Iran some incentives to surrender the hostages-what he calls "a carrot...
...bring an orderly, disciplined mind and decades of experience as a troubleshooter to bear on the supervision of foreign policy. He knew his strengths as a manager and as a patient negotiator. He had enough self-confidence not to be bothered by the inevitable unflattering comparisons with his stellar predecessor, Henry Kissinger. Vance did not even try to compete with Kissinger as a spinner of grand designs or as a globe-trotting diplomatic superstar...
...little reason to believe that it does. Senator Edmund Muskie's known views on major issues of foreign policy are roughly in accord with those held by the President, else Mr. Carter evidently would not have appointed him. The new Secretary is not as committed as was his predecessor to policies that have now visibly failed. In the manner of the President, Senator Muskie experienced a sense of "betrayal" over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. His self-characterization indicates, however, the extent to which he was committed, along with President Carter and Secretary Vance, to detente with the Soviet Union...
...unquestioned. In his programming he has been criticized for catering, as one critic put it privately, to "the dowager taste, to the Main Line bluebloods who put up the dough." He himself concedes: "I should have done more new works-the late Stravinsky, Copland, the whole contemporary group." His predecessor, the flamboyant Leopold Stokowski, made a specialty of such works. But, says Ormandy, he got away with it because "the women were crazy about him. I am not so handsome...