Word: succeeded
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...years in a French prison before escaping to China in 1944. A year later he took command of Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta and in 1946 was made responsible for the political indoctrination of all Viet Minh troops. Dong is considered the man most likely to succeed the ailing Giap, who has been treated for cancer in Moscow...
John E. Sawyer, former president of Williams College and present vice president of the foundation, will succeed Pusey...
...died. Now Brezhnev can probably count on eight votes, including his own, on issues that come before the 15 remaining Politburo members. This might enable him to engineer an orderly transfer of power at the 25th Party Congress that is scheduled to begin next February. Current favorite to succeed him, at least on an interim basis: Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, who like Brezhnev is 68 and reportedly ailing...
...make her first appearance with a modern dance company in a smaller role. With tickets starting at $50 and climbing to a robust $10,000 a seat, Graham has persuaded a former student, First Lady Betty Ford, to act as honorary chairperson of the event. "I hope it will succeed," said Graham. "But if it is a failure, I hope it is a big one, a scandal. I don't believe in little failures...
...withdrawal to something like the pre-Six Day War boundaries has to happen eventually: therefore, if Israel would publicly acknowledge its readiness to return the occupied territories in Sinai and Golan in exchange for various guarantees of security and above all for recognition by Syria and Egypt, it would succeed in shifting the emphasis of the negotiations from the question of the occupied territories, to the Arab refusal to recognize Israel. In this way, he feels, Israel could end its isolation in the international community by declaring that it will take a step which most people consider inevitable...