Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran's right-wing clergymen, who now regard the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini as an opportunist and an apostate. Though the rightists have thus far lost the battle to keep the Islamic revolution uncontaminated by Communist support, they have gathered strength in the power struggle over who will succeed Khomeini. Government leaders have announced that preparations are being made for the selection of a supreme council of experts, which will consist of three to five theologians who will take over when Khomeini dies or he becomes too sick to rule. The council might well include one or more right-wing...
...briefing scheduled for the next morning I would tell the congressional leadership about his central, indispensable role in managing the Mideast crisis. He spoke of his political end, even his physical demise: "They are doing it because of their desire to kill the President. And they may succeed. I may physically die." I tried to soothe him. He was at his best in adversity, I said...
...Aswan on Monday, Jan. 14, we met in the conference room. I began with a joke. I said the next few hours would tell whether what I brought was going to be known as the "Kissinger plan" (that is, succeed) or the "Sisco plan" (that is, fail). But when I went through the Israeli disengagement scheme in great detail, the mood grew frosty. The plan, said General Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Egypt's Chief of Staff, was designed to improve Israel's security and weaken Egypt's. Sadat listened sphinxlike. Then he asked me to leave the others...
...responsibility, it does not bring the absolute power this person dreams of. The days of Rockefeller, Hunt, Getty and other corporate dictators are over. Management these days has a board and stockholders to answer to, so unless all of your business associates are likewise closet liberals. You will succeed only in making a total fool of yourself, after which you will be fired and blackballed from taking any position in corporate management again...
...past few weeks, Americans have been asking themselves some urgent and difficult questions about the ugly civil war in El Salvador. Will the latest guerrilla offensive succeed in disrupting and discrediting the elections scheduled for next month? Will the beleaguered civilian President, José Napoleon Duarte, be able to stave off the leftist challenge? Can he also rein in the right-wing military leaders with whom he shares what remains of central power-and therefore with whom he shares responsibility for atrocities committed by the security forces? And what can the U.S. do? Can it simultaneously foster land reform...