Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years, and taught ancient and medieval philosophy, Latin and Greek at another seminary for three. New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst has interviewed theologians from Rudolf Bultmann to Hans Küng, while Chicago Correspondent J. Madeleine Nash covered the final days of Bernardin's controversial predecessor, the late John Cardinal Cody. Says she: "After the remoteness of the old-style bishops, Bernardin seems refreshingly approachable...
...could be sure that the leadership battle was definitely over. Although Andropov decisively occupied center stage at the elaborate ceremonies surrounding the funeral of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev, leaving any rivals far in the background, the country's gerontocratic leadership had not substantially changed. Only when Andropov faces this week's meeting of the 308-man Central Committee will his skills as a political infighter and his ambition to put his mark on the Soviet Union be tested...
Chief among them was Rose Bird. Only 40, with no experience as a judge, she moved up from state agriculture secretary to head the court in 1977. In contrast to the gentle persuasion effectively practiced by her predecessor, Donald Wright, the bright, hard-working Bird offered aloofness and abrasion. Her manner soon cost her the services of Ralph Kleps, the able administrator of the state's judiciary. Another casualty was collegiality, the glue that enables seven independent thinkers to meld their views into cohesive decisions. Then in 1979, the court endured the public debacle of a state investigation...
...interview in London last week with TIME's Frank Melville, Kuzichkin said: 1) Brezhnev himself overruled repeated advice from Yuri Andropov's KGB not to turn Afghanistan into a Soviet satellite, 2) Afghan President Babrak Karmal is a KGB agent of long standing, 3) Karmal's predecessor was murdered in his palace by a specially trained, KGB-led Soviet assault group. Kuzichkin's account...
...feel impelled to flex his country's military muscles in his first months as general secretary of the Communist Party. Such a gesture would presumably cement the tentative legitimacy of the former Brezhnev aide. Others depicted the new leader as being more pragmatic in foreign affairs than his predecessor. In this view, Andropov might focus his energies on firming up the tottering Soviet economy, seeking success in the area where Brezhnev failed most...