Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downtown Cairo, students and workers jammed the squares, setting fire to police stations, buses and trucks and attacking government buildings. The air over Cairo was thick with black smoke from the fires. Shepheard's Hotel, the government-run successor to the old Shepheard's of the imperial past, was stoned. Nightclubs frequented by rich foreign Arabs were burned...
...Yediot Aharonot: "Sadat certainly learned that while he is engaged in world politics, his own house is about to fall in on him. One cannot foster imperial greatness while going bankrupt at home." That was a shortsighted view indeed; if Sadat had fallen, the chances were strong that his successor might be more inclined toward a renewed confrontation with Israel...
Destroyed Dreams. Kissinger's dreams of building the structure of peace in the second Nixon term were destroyed. Instead, he conducted damage-limiting operations. On dark days he would confide, "I just hope I can hold things together for my successor...
When Mayor Daley died last month, people talked about a power vacuum reminiscent of that following the death of Stalin. Like other leaders of his ilk, Daley fancied himself immortal and groomed no successor. Even his son, State Sen. Richard M. Daley, whom the mayor supposedly wanted to succeed him, had been given no position of power from which to exert control over his father's domain. And many regulars hate...
...disorder across the land leads to great order." So declared China's new Chairman, Hua Kuo-feng, in a major policy speech published in Peking last week. The optimistic aphorism had been a favorite of Mao Tse-tung's, but it would be up to Mao's hard-pressed successor to make it come true. As Hua delivered his address in the Great Hall of the People before 8,000 delegates attending an agricultural conference in the Chinese capital, reports were already filtering out of China suggesting the existence of considerable disorder in the shape of strikes, sabotage and even...