Word: successors
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...dubious to say that "Labour has swung swiftly and militantly to the left," though this is the conventional wisdom expressed by the Conservative British press. The trade unions have become more militant in their demands, but the Party leadership remains largely unaltered. Wilson's likely successor would be James Callaghan (a more conservative figure and an erstwhile supporter of America's Vietnam policy.) Other possible Labour leaders include Roy Jenkins and Shirley Williams (both articulate and moderate social democrats and supporters of the Common Market), and Denis Healey (whose policies are less predictable, but who might pursue a more radical...
...whose diocese includes the Slaves' farm, that the excommunication of the aging, ailing Feeney was removed secretly in 1972 without a requirement that he recant. The Vatican's doctrinal office acted, with at least pro forma approval by the Pope, after a plea from Cushing's successor, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros...
Impatient Lombardi holdovers on his staff quickly concluded that he was incompetent and let that be known around town. Nevertheless, Devine managed to turn around the losing team he had inherited from Lombardi's immediate successor, Phil Bengtson. He took the Pack to the play-offs his second year in Green Bay and was selected as conference coach of the year...
Mustered out as a major, Colby earned a law degree from Columbia. He practiced law in New York until the Korean War, when he joined the successor organization to the OSS, the CIA. After serving in Stockholm and Rome, he was named CIA station chief in Saigon in 1959. Three years later he became chief of the CIA's Far East division in Washington. He returned to Saigon in 1968 to take charge of the pacification effort, which included the notorious Phoenix program. By 1971, Phoenix had caused the deaths of 20,587 Viet Cong members and sympathizers, according...
...been a way of life in the county, as the Spiro Agnew case dramatized. But the indictment for corruption-and the subsequent resignation-of Democratic County Executive Dale Anderson last spring apparently were too much. The voters defeated ten party regulars, ranging from Frederick L. Dewberry, Anderson's successor, to four candidates for the Baltimore County council...