Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fall Guy. The battle to succeed O'Neill as majority leader was something else again. It required three ballots and was finally settled by a single vote...
Miki's strongest challenger is his harshest critic, former Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda, 71, who has lined up powerful backing from among the L.D.P.'s half-dozen factions in a bid to succeed Miki. Their rivalry became so bitter that they maintained separate national headquarters during the three-week campaign and kept up a running feud that badly damaged L.D.P. prospects. One possible compromise choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Miki is genuinely convinced that radical reforms are needed to refurbish the L.D.P.'s image. His diagnosis: "The party caused its own defeat because we failed...
...least that was the story the CIA floated in March 1975, when reports of the submarine caper began leaking to the press. But TIME has learned that Project Jennifer did in fact succeed: the entire wreck, a 320-ft.-long Golf-class II diesel-powered submarine built in 1961, was recovered virtually intact. Confirms a senior U.S. Navy officer: "It was all one hell of a success." Why the partial-recovery story? The CIA remains mum about its motives but the agency evidently had a dual aim. For one thing, it wanted to defend the high cost of Jennifer-about...
Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
...doling out money and credit, and he has proposed making the terms of future Federal Reserve chairmen coincide with the terms of Presidents-a none-too-subtle indication that he believes each President should have a chairman who is philosophically compatible. But Carter cannot appoint a new chairman to succeed Burns until January 1978, and he knows that his plans for economic expansion will fail unless Burns and the board pump enough money into the banking system...