Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold Hoa Binh against Communist counterattacks, General Raoul Salan, De Lattre's successor in Indo-China, increased the French garrison to 23,000 men, sent his shoestring air force to strafe Red convoys. But the Reds were too strong: using Russian antiaircraft guns, they shot down ten French planes in seven days' fighting. Viet Minh raiders slipped through the French defenses, infiltrated the delta...
...week acclaimed Carlos Hevia, 52, as the official Auténtico Party's presidential candidate in the June elections. Next week five lesser parties in the pro-government coalition are scheduled to add their endorsement of President Carlos Prío's hand-picked choice for his successor...
...result of the leftist pact is that the "Democratic Front," having a clear majority in Congress, will be able to elect one of its own men president of Congress next month. That post has a special significance in Guatemala because its holder is also the President's legal successor. And the succession has an added importance in Guatemalan eyes these days because, despite official denials, rumors keep cropping up that President Arbenz is in poor health and may soon have to retire or take a leave of absence...
...successor to Sir Henry Gurney, the British High Commissioner slain by the Communists in Malaya, Britain appointed a scrappy fighter and tough administrator...
Wisecracking Price Stabilizer Mike Di Salle, who resigned to run for Senator from Ohio, last week got a serious-talking successor: ex-Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 44, of Georgia...