Word: successor
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...Though Koizumi all but anointed abe as his successor, another leader may bear even more responsibility for boosting Abe to the premiership: Kim Jong Il. As deputy cabinet secretary, Abe accompanied Koizumi on his historic trip to Pyongyang in 2002. After Kim shocked Japan by admitting that North Korea had kidnapped Japanese nationals, including Megumi Yokota, Abe became the face of Tokyo's response. When a group of surviving abductees visited Japan, Abe insisted they not return to the North. "From then on he was very popular on TV and among the general public," says Jun Iio, professor of government...
...group released a statement on Friday calling on Khatami to condemn the abuses and the actions of Khatami’s successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during the speech...
...TIME: Your successor [as president of Iran] has said that the Holocaust did not happen. How do you explain that...
Derek C. Bok expects to be out of a job by next July, but the University’s interim president said in an interview last Friday that his administration will not be “just holding things in place” for his successor...
...Annan's selection a decade ago holds any clues, it could be months--tense, diplomatically bruising months--before his successor is chosen. The Ghanaian won after his predecessor, Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali, met stiff U.S. opposition to a second term. France and the U.S. battled ferociously over a replacement, enduring weeks of acrimony before Paris cried uncle and agreed to Annan less than three weeks before his predecessor's term was due to end. Diplomats, it seems, work best on deadline...