Word: successor
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...Russians, not only his acting Prime Minister but also his heir. Bestowing his trust in Putin, Yeltsin implored voters to do the same: "I want those who go to polls next July to be confident in him as well." Putin, a former head of the Federal Security Service (the successor to the KGB), accepted the call to duty with alacrity. "We are military men," he declared in his remarks. "The decision's been taken, and we will carry it out." It was exactly what Yeltsin wanted to hear...
...financial malfeasance in the Kremlin, centering on lucrative contracts awarded a Swiss construction firm. Yeltsin is eager to ensure that whoever takes over the Kremlin next year won't be coming after him or his family. And while Putin may not survive in office long enough to become his successor, Yeltsin is counting on him to have the political muscle to shepherd the Kremlin's favorites into the Duma in December...
...enemies with him. The former foreign minister, ex-KGB spymaster and sometime prime minister announced Tuesday he would head up the broad Fatherland-All Russia coalition just formed by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. With Yeltsin having promised to step down in 2000 but looking to install a chosen successor (possibly prime minister du jour Vladimir Putin), Primakov's candid 10-minute speech ?- remarkably full of detail for a Russian politician ?- was aimed squarely at citizens frustrated by their current leader?s bombastic incoherence. If Primakov were into sound bites, it would have been: I knew Boris Yeltsin...
...amenable. The panel filed a 2-to-1 majority decision to keep the investigation going, in light of Starr's assurances that his office's work continues, and that it had been "unusually productive," yielding 24 indictments, 16 convictions and the impeachment of Clinton. If Starr gets his successor, the job may not last long anyway ? a Starr spokesman confirmed that the team has already begun writing their ominous (but indictment-free) final report, which Starr says will be out "as soon as is practicable," hopefully by November 2000 (watch out, Hillary). One judge (unsurprisingly, the Carter appointee...
According to Frankel, his successor has been developing proposals to assist workers who have lost their jobs because of trade policies...