Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip also provided an opportunity to reaffirm the bond with Australia, which is becoming an increasingly closer ally in political, economic and cultural matters. By way of welcome, Holt's interim successor, John McEwen, promised "no change in Australia's commitment until a just peace is won." Johnson also had a rare chance to meet with the leaders of the five other Viet Nam war allies, some of them for the first time since the Manila Conference 14 months ago. He conferred with South Viet Nam's President Thieu, South Korea's President Chung Hee Park...
With the prosecution thus stalled, the political implications became more apparent. Justice Minister Joao de Matos Antunes Varela, who has often been spoken of as a possible Salazar successor, left his post amid rumors that he had balked at Salazar's orders to halt the proceedings against the high-level defendants. Though none of Salazar's ministers has so far been identified as a patron of the ring, the scandal has given a highly charged issue to what antigovernment forces there are. Dr. Mario Scares, a prominent opposition lawyer, was arrested last week on charges of spreading malicious...
...captain Bob Rockwood and Tom Coakley have been around for three years and are solid, competent defensemen. Pairing off with the seniors are Curt Bennett, a sophomore billed as the successor to two-time All-American Bob Gaudreau, and junior Steve Wormith, Brown's All-Ivy honorable mention fullback. Bob Wormith and Bennett tallied in the Cornell game...
During President Sukarno's konfrontasi with Malaysia, the Indonesian army equipped, trained and sheltered guerrillas to harass the Malaysians along the two countries' common border on the island of Borneo. Now the move has boomeranged. Once Sukarno's successor, General Suharto, had ended the foolish quarrel with Malaysia, the guerrillas were left on their own in the jungles of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. Peking, which sees the island's large Chinese population as the advance phalanx for an ultimate Communist takeover, has been exhorting the mostly Chinese guerrillas not only to continue to offer...
...Among bishops most prominently mentioned as his successor: John F. Dearden of Detroit; Francis F. Reh, head of the North American College in Rome; Fulton J. Sheen of Rochester; John J. Maguire, the temporary administrator of the New York archdiocese; John J. Wright of Pittsburgh...