Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money to take and hold the Saltoro, it would be politically difficult for Gandhi to yield even part of the territory to Pakistan, especially with national elections only months away. Bhutto is in an even more sensitive position. Having once taunted late President Mohammed % Zia ul-Haq, her predecessor, for losing the territory in the first place, she now faces poisonous criticism from opposition leaders who accuse her of "submission" to India. In the end, both Gandhi and Bhutto will have to stare down their political antagonists in order to agree on a boundary line across the north...
...records of its own. Wednesday's high of 96 degrees was the highest ever recorded on that date. And an extremely unscientific set of readings taken at several locations around campus by The Crimson revealed that while Summer 1989 may not measure up to its predecessor, yesterday's temperatures were still pretty impressive. Or oppressive, depending on your perspective...
Kemp tried to avoid direct criticism of his predecessor, whom he called a decent and honorable man, but nonetheless noted that HUD is still dealing with more than 1,900 recommendations from the department's inspector general for tightening lax procedures, suggestions that had sat on Pierce's desk without action...
...Jiang settled into his new job, the purge widened against party officials and intellectuals associated with his more moderate predecessor, Zhao Ziyang, who was formally dismissed on June 24 from most of his major posts but not the party. The country was also subjected to an intense campaign aimed at building the visibility of 84-year-old Deng Xiaoping, who used to eschew the cult of personality but has come out of semiretirement to show that he is still firmly in charge. A speech Deng delivered on June 9 defending his order to the army to remove the demonstrators from...
...Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. In a report read by Premier Li, Zhao was $ accused of holding "unshirkable responsibilities for the shaping of the turmoil" of the past two months. Zhao was also stripped of his other official posts, making his disgrace more complete than that of his predecessor Hu Yaobang, who was allowed to remain on the Central Committee following unrest in 1987. Named new General Secretary was Jiang Zemin, 62, a member of the ruling Polituburo and party head of Shanghai. Though regarded as more technician than ideologue, he tends to side with the conservatives, who have clearly...