Word: raul
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Castro has always said, "Revolutionaries never retire," but he has been planning for the inevitable "biological transition" that will bring a new leader to that book-lined office. His brother Raul remains the designated successor. But starting perhaps half a decade ago, he began systematically replacing old revolutionary comrades in the government with young, educated technocrats. Today many party leaders, National Assembly members and Fidel's own top advisers are under 40, a form of insurance that dedicated followers of his ideals are prepared to carry on his revolutionary mission...
...Raul Hilberg, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, and author of The Destruction of the European Jews, noted that in debates such as these, "one does not as a rule hire lawyers...
KYOTO, Japan: One day left for the 160 nations gathered at the climate change conference to cut the Gordian knot of global warming, and the U.S. is keeping its greenhouse gas treaty bottom line close to its chest. "We are close to a solution," claimed the Argentine chairman Raul Estrada, who is preparing a draft agreement for industrial nations ? but that doesn't jibe with China?s intention to nix anything that inhibits its economic growth. Many senators have already said they won't ratify any treaty that doesn't have China's name...
Aztec dancer Raul Ruiz, a third-year student at the Medical School, defined the concept behind the festivities in more mystical terms, going back to the idea that the festival blurs the line between life and death...
Still, the anti-U.S. sentiment in Bonn last week wasn't universal. Declared Meg McDonald, Australian Ambassador for the Environment: "We think it's better to do what's realistic... than have unrealistic targets which are never reached." And although Raul Estrada-Oyuela of Argentina, chairman of the Bonn session, criticized the U.S. position as "very modest," he was "impressed by the fact that Clinton chose to make the offer himself. That is encouraging." Estrada-Oyuela warned other representatives against reacting impulsively and said the measures proposed by the U.S. would have to be analyzed carefully before action could...