Word: successor
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...Middle East. The participants were well informed. They knew that another Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai seemed in the making, in exchange for a declaration of nonbelligerency in some form from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Yet the group was uneasy. Asked a woman: "But what will Sadat's successor do? Will he honor an agreement?" Replied Bookbinder: "Perfidy is always possible, but we cannot live on the basis that an adversary may not live up to an agreement...
...with my God." Many Chicagoans believe that he will have to do all that and more if he is to deal successfully with Chicago's problems over the next four years. More important for the machine, he must also arrange for an orderly transfer of power to a successor. He is now 72, and this campaign was almost certainly his last hurrah...
...possibility of suicide with them. Some opposed it, others did nothing to discourage it. The three Van Dusen sons are known to differ on the suicide pact, but colleagues were sympathetic last week. "I think they did the right thing," said Ethicist John C. Bennett, Van Dusen's successor at Union...
Many observers predicted a power struggle after Muhammad's death. But last week all seemed to be harmony as Son Wallace, 41, was proclaimed his father's preordained successor. Wallace had twice quit the faith, only to repent; while he tends to matters spiritual, others will mind the money. And after Wallace's boring, rambling inaugural speech, it seemed that no one man would fill the Messenger's shoes...
With Meany so vigorously in command, labor experts say that he will not only stay in office for as long as he likes, but will probably be able to pick his successor when he does decide to go. Meany's most likely choice is Lane Kirkland, 52, now the AFL-CIO'S secretary-treasurer. Although Kirkland is not "a man to set 'em on fire," in the words of one union official, he is respected as an able, knowledgeable and tough-minded leader. He is also something of a diplomat. Kirkland keeps telling people that he will...