Word: sons
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...dictator's oldest son, Luis, immediately assumed the presidency, and Luis's younger brother, Anastasio Somoza II, a West Point graduate, became commander in chief of the National Guard. Luis governed until 1963 when a puppet president succeeded him. It was then the younger Somoza's turn. In 1967 General Somoza installed himself as president, stepping out only long enough in the early '70s to make the necessary manuevers to permit his "re-election" in 1974. Like his father, the current Somoza's base of power rests with the 7500-member National Guard faithfully trained and supplied by the United...
...power struggle continues as Somoza appears intent on keeping Nicaragua in the hands of the family. His 27-year-old son, Major Anastasio Somoza III '73 and Somoza's brother-in-law and ambassador to Washington, Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, are reportedly the designated heirs to the throne. Sources in Nicaragua say that key civilian and military elements within the regime agree with the opposition that such blatant continuation of family rule cannot be allowed...
Sunday, as Sadat later reminded his Knesset listeners, was 'Id al-Adh?, an Islamic holy day that commemorates the willingness of Abraham, the patriarch and prophet revered by Jews and Muslims alike, to sacrifice his son. The visiting President began the day with prayer at Al Aqsa mosque in Old Jerusalem, the third holiest spot in Islam. Then as a gesture to Egypt's large Coptic minority, he stopped at the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which in Christian tradition sanctifies the spot where Jesus rose from the dead. With his hosts, he visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial...
...that is quite a departure. Michael Marks, who joined forces with Tom Spencer and later gave his name to M & S's in-house St. Michael brand line, traded under the motto: "Don't ask the price, it's a penny." His son Simon, taking over the group of 60 bazaars upon Michael's death in 1907, imported from the U.S. the concept that better working conditions make workers happier and more efficient. The company trusts junior saleswomen to restock their own counters as necessary. Indeed, the company tries to cut out paperwork wherever possible...
Today that life is divided comfortably between a weekend château near Tours and an apartment on the fashionable Rue de Rivoli, where Salinger lives and writes with his second wife Nicole and their son Gregory, 11. Though he learned the language of diplomacy from his French-born mother and grandmother as a boy in San Francisco ("If you didn't speak French in our house, you didn't eat"), he does his columns in English, then approves a L'Express translation...