Word: successor
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...nonsense fighter pilot who had been a favorite of--and, some insiders say, a possible successor to--former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Halutz at first impressed Israelis with his aviator glasses and Top Gun swagger. Once asked how it felt to drop a bomb on people, he replied, "I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel." Such myopia may have worked for him in the cockpit, but may be a liability in politics...
RICARDO ALARCON, Cuba's National Assembly president, comparing the delayed public appearance of Raśl Castro, the ailing Fidel's younger brother and at least temporary successor, with the U.S. Vice President's tendency to slip away to undisclosed locations...
...Castro's, and yet rare is the leader as powerful as he who is as mysterious to the outside world. Raśl, who temporarily assumed charge of the Cuban presidency for the first time last week as Fidel recovered from abdominal surgery, has always been there. His brother's designated successor, he was beside Fidel from the moment the two, with Raśl's acquaintance Che Guevara, launched the revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Having joined the Socialist Youth as a university student, Raśl was red before Fidel, who fought Batista in the name...
...their region. Pan-Arabism was humiliated by Israel's six-day victory in the 1967 war. The subsequent death of Egyptian President Nasser, who instigated that disaster, accelerated pan-Arabism's decline. Its final collapse occurred when its last great proponent, Saddam Hussein, was swept away in 2003. The successor Arab rulers no longer dream of a single Arab state and have grudgingly come to accept a small Jewish state in part of Palestine. Hence the peace treaties that Egypt and Jordan signed with Israel...
...have been a supporter of Koizumi's since before he became Prime Minister. I always found his way of speaking easy to understand and his manner appealing. Koizumi made Japanese politics interesting. I bid him a fond farewell and hope that his successor will continue his reforms. Yoshie Saito Furano, Japan...