Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...males. The Cardinal, while uncovering his professor's narrow-mindedness, reveals his own by refusing to dialogue on the issue of homosexuality. On several occasions he has declined to grant an audience to representatives of Dignity/Boston, a gay and lesbian Catholic organization. In addition, an aide to Law's predecessor, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, even refused to accept a donation check which Dignity contributed to the Cardinal Stuart Fund, a church-sponsored charity...
...average Korean, prosperity has bred a kind of contentment. "We do our best to bear Chun," says a businessman, "not because we love him but because we need political stability to keep our business surviving." Many Koreans remember that in 1979, after the assassination of Chun's predecessor, Park Chung Hee, the country suffered through a year of severe economic decline. Now they want to keep things steady...
Exactly one month after becoming President, Corazon Aquino appeared last week, clad in her trademark yellow, to announce her agenda for reviving democracy in the Philippines. Scrapping the 1973 constitution introduced by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and dissolving the effectively powerless National Assembly dominated by Marcos' followers, she imposed a provisional constitution that allows her to rule by decree until a new charter is agreed upon. Within 60 days, Aquino promised, she will appoint a committee to draft a fresh constitution. Three months after that, she hopes to put the document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well...
Aquino's attempts to claim the Marcos millions topped a week in which the new President moved to consolidate her power. She freed prominent insurgents, including the founder of the outlawed Communist Party, took steps to replace local officials loyal to her predecessor and asked for the resignations of Marcos' judges. Aquino found that she could not please all of the people all of the time. The military opposed her decision to free the hard-core rebels, and leftists complained because she had not freed everyone earlier. Meanwhile, Marcos supporters accused her of acting arbitrarily in ousting local officials...
Less than twelve hours later her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and his family climbed aboard four U.S. Air Force helicopters, bound for exile after more than 20 years of increasingly authoritarian rule. Aquino went on national television to assure the country that a great national crisis had been resolved. "We are finally free," she said. "The long agony is over...