Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy relationship between Shultz and President Reagan has boosted morale at the State Department and eased tensions with the White House staff. Alexander Haig, Shultz's predecessor, was convinced that Reagan aides in the West Wing often engaged in a "guerrilla war" against him, but the antagonisms have disappeared under the new Secretary...
...Beirut. Educated by the Jesuits, Gemayel took a law degree at St. Joseph's University of Beirut in 1971, but abandoned a short-lived law practice at the onset of Lebanon's civil war. In 1976 he became commander in chief of the Phalangist militias when his predecessor was killed in action. Soon afterward, he took charge of the Lebanese Forces, the unified command of all the Christian militias...
...week's emotional high point was a candlelight prayer service in Holy Name Cathedral, where Bernardin told a congregation of priests, "I need your great talent, energy, collaboration, faith, loyalty, challenge and honest counsel." Then he spoke touchingly of his troubled predecessor. "I was four years old when the Cardinal became a priest. We are men of different generations and different experiences. I was saddened by the pain, suffering and conflict that seemed to cloud his final years. By any objective measure, Cardinal Cody did many good things for Chicago that make my work easier. If any hard feeling...
...undisputed center of terrorism for a variety of reasons. Traditionally, the country has been known as a land of asylum. It has favored an open visa system, a loose border policy and lax airport checks. Mitterrand has adopted a less stringent policy toward terrorists than his conservative predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...uncovered all four of the Great Temple's sides, discovering that it was a far more complex structure than early chronicles had suggested. Begun in 1325, it was constructed in successive stages, each Aztec Emperor making his own contribution by building a new temple on top of his predecessor's. So far the archaeologists have sliced into seven major levels, plus several minor ones. The best-preserved is the second, completed in 1390, a date derived from a plaque inscribed with carvings from the 52-year Aztec calendar. Even the bases of the shrines to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc...