Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's leadership. First, the Peking leadership brought to an abrupt climax the intense ideological campaign against the notorious "capitalist reader" Teng Hsiao-p'ing (TIME Cover, Jan. 19), the wily little bureaucrat who only three months ago was considered Chou En-lai's sure successor as Premier. Because of the "counterrevolutionary incident that took place at T'ien An Men Square," the Politburo announced, Teng was being stripped of all his posts-Vice Premier of the government, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the army...
Meteoric Rise. Chou's successor has had a relatively meteoric rise. He is a native of Shansi province in northern China, where he joined the Communist Party. Hua went to Hunan prov ince as a minor party official about the time the Communists came to power in 1949. In the early 1950s, after gaining a reputation as an expert in agriculture, he was made party secretary in Mao's home county of Hsiang-t'an. Hua achieved brief nationwide notice by writing an article for Study magazine, the party's theoretical journal, on the changing class...
...basic issue of the discussions was how to arrange the quick election of a successor to President Suleiman Franjieh, the conservative, discredited Maronite leader from the northern town of Zgharta. The predominantly Moslem leftist coalition called the National Movement, led by Kamal Jumblatt, has vowed to fight on until Franjieh is ousted. At week's end the 98 members of the Lebanese Parliament-meeting for the first time in more than a month-approved a constitutional amendment providing for immediate elections...
William F. Wilson, a third-year architecture student and member of the search committee that chose McCue, offers one of the firmest statements of this McCue-as-appointed-successor scenario: "You don't ask if McCue will be dean, but how long before he is dean." Harris sees Kilbridge gracefully stepping down when the school returns to a quiet equilibrium...
...There was good reason for the sartorial preening: after the second ballot of Labor Party members was counted, Callaghan and Foot were the remaining contenders in the race for the party leadership-and with it, the move to 10 Downing Street as resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson's successor...