Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move plainly calculated to guarantee a pro-South African regime in Namibia, Vorster announced that Pretoria would forge ahead with an "internal settlement." Last week, top foreign-policy makers of the Big Five, headed by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, called on Vorster's hard-lining successor, Pieter W. Botha, with a harsh message: either go along with the West's independence plan or face U.N.-imposed* economic sanctions...
...game frightfully fraught with irony, Navarro returned to Baker Field two weeks ago, when his Princeton team met a revamped Columbia. Bill Campbell, his successor at Columbia, has finally achieved success this year with the veer offense after four years of experimentation. Navarro, of course, has a four year contract and is just beginning to implement his own veer this season. That Saturday, Columbia beat Princeton for the first time since Navarro left New York...
Finally, John Paul Cubed I. the newly named successor to the late Pope John Paul John Paul I who died last week only 19 minutes after his investiture according to "Not The New York Times," will deliver the sermon during this Sunday's Memorial Church service. His topic will be "Longevity of Life." The Peter Gomes Solidarity Committee has announced plans to demonstrate outside the church to protest the passing over of Rev. Gomes, as well as Rabbi Ben Zion Gold, in the papal selection process...
...flying aeronautics display by fighters of the Kenya air force. At the center of the colorful hosannas, a leather-bound Bible in his hands, was Daniel Torotich arap Moi, 54, who swore to serve the people of Kenya "faithfully and impartially" as the country's second President and successor to the late Jomo Kenyatta. The country's Anglican archbishop presided over an ecumenical thanksgiving service...
...gloomy report on the state-of-the-church in a certain nation that could only have shocked John Paul. Besides, earlier on the day of his death, a Cardinal living in Rome had apparently rebuffed John Paul by refusing to accept appointment as the new Pope's successor as Patriarch of Venice. Such reports suggested that John Paul may quite literally have been shocked to death. Other Vatican sources say that John Paul was overwhelmed by the complexity of the Vatican Curia and that the resulting strain contributed to his sudden death...