Word: predecessors
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...early as 1943, Kekkonen suggested that Finnish welfare depended on "neighborly relations with the hereditary enemy" in Moscow. His line was picked up by Kekkonen's presidential predecessor, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, who made it the basis of Finnish postwar neutrality after the Soviets forced a special "friendship treaty" on Finland in 1948. Kekkonen served five times as Paasikivi's Prime Minister in shaky coalition governments from...
Perhaps a president should not be held responsible for foreign policy decisions made by his predecessor. Perhaps Reagan does not feel obliged to adhere to the spirit of Camp David or the quid pro quos attached to the F-15 sales. But since the strategic advantages of the AWACs sale do not spring readily to mind, the biggest benefit Reagan has gained is a strengthening of his primacy in the shaping of foreign policy. That the Senate was willing to surrender authority on such a questionable decision casts sharp doubt on American credibility abroad--not only in Israel. Reagan...
...departure from Kania's moderate policies, which he had publicly supported as Premier. Noted a U.S. State Department official: "Jaruzelski believes the same thing Kania believed, that you have to deal with Solidarity." Nonetheless, Jaruzelski's party comrades clearly expected him to show more resolve than his predecessor in restoring discipline to the party, the economy and the public at large...
...apparent; last week he succeeded his slain mentor as President of Egypt. As the People's Assembly chanted, "Long live the Arab Republic of Egypt," Hosni Mubarak, 53, took the oath of office and pledged, as he had done immediately after Sadat's death, to follow his predecessor's policies. "This is my fate," he said, "to stand before you in his absence. Egypt is stable. The greatest tribute we can pay him is to follow his course." Mubarak affirmed Egypt's support of the peace treaty with Israel, assured his countrymen that the Israelis would...
...Democratic [Communist] Party that hewed closely to Moscow's line. After the 1978 coup that brought rivals in a more in dependent party faction to power, he was sent off into diplomatic exile as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. In December 1979, when the Soviets invaded and killed his predecessor, Hafizullah Amin, Karmal emerged as the new leader...