Word: succeeding
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NAMED. Joseph L. Bernardin, 54, Archbishop of Cincinnati and former president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, by Pope John Paul II to succeed the ate John P. Cardinal Cody as Archbishop of Chicago, the nation's largest archdiocese, with 2.5 million Roman Catholics. A liberal on social issues but a conservative on church doctrine, Bernardin was the subject of controversy last year when his name surfaced in the private journals of the Rev. Andrew Greeley, a writer and Cody critic. Greeley created a fictional scenario in which Bernardin succeeded the embattled Cody as part of a plot...
...Flynn and Tron are the daring young revolutionaries who give their dejected compatriots hope. They fight not, as we were originally led to belive, so that Flynn can make big bucks, but "to make this system free again." Political moderates will be relieved to observe that Flynn does not succeed until he learns to work within the system...
...feelings, a Palestinian business man declared: "The P.L.O. must accept defeat. We have all suffered too much madness and destruction." Everyone could agree on that. At week's end, as the Israelis moved to seal off all entry to West Beirut, the question was whether the negotiations could succeed in time to head off the Israeli onslaught. - By William E. Smith...
Officials in Washington declined to dismiss the program as a Soviet propaganda ploy. Said a State Department spokesman: "We don't want to debunk something that might succeed in bringing about a greater feeling of concern about nuclear war in the Soviet Union." Still, the day when 700,000 people gather in Red Square to oppose nuclear weapons, as they did in New York City's Central Park last month, is probably as distant as ever...
...question is whether De la Madrid will be able to manage the party, and the country, during the necessary period of belt tightening. In Washington, some State Department experts are optimistic that he can succeed. Says one Government official, summing up business and banking reactions: "He's the perfect guy to confront the business and economic problems." Whether De la Madrid can restore confidence in Mexico's shaken presidency is another question. De la Madrid says only: "I know that my entry into the government will not be easy." He will have six years to find out just...