Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mekong Delta southwest of the city. On the political front, there was no significant development. A lone, enraged pilot tried to kill Thieu, but there was no evidence that the President was ready to step down-or that the legion of his political opponents could agree on a successor. Meanwhile, for countless thousands of Vietnamese, as well as for the estimated 5,000 Americans still in the country, the overriding question was how they could make their escape before the Communists take control (see box, page...
...Nonetheless, the President is still a power to be feared. Some members of the opposition went into hiding, fearful that Thieu would use the palace bombing as an excuse to imprison more opponents of the regime. The major problem that the opposition faces is the lack of a likely successor. Although his remark was self-serving, Thieu's cousin Nha was probably correct last week when he smugly observed: "Do you see anyone else around...
...course, there is always the chance that Thieu's successor might be a strong nationalist who would try to rally the armed forces for a last-ditch stand against the Communists. A bloody battle for Saigon would then become inevitable-as would its outcome. Despite the hyperbole, Hanoi's party newspaper Nhan Dan was probably correct when it boasted: "Wherever our army advances, it smashes and disintegrates all of the enemy...
Without frontally assaulting any of Jacobsen's claims, Williams managed to wrest a damaging series of admissions from him. Williams asked Jacobsen to go through the 280 bills that made up the first $10,000 for those bearing the signature of George Shultz, Connally's successor as Treasury Secretary, and 49 of them did. If Jacobsen's story is true, it seems puzzling indeed that Connally blundered by including so many Shultz bills. The purpose of the alleged exercise, after all, was to make it seem the money had been in Jacobsen's safe-deposit...
Democratic Political Consultant Joe Cerrell was needling Donald Livingston, a member of former California Governor Ronald Reagan's cabinet. "Reagan must be ecstatic about his successor," joshed Cerrell. "No," Livingston retorted, "he thinks Jerry Brown has gone too far to the right...