Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speculating on a successor...
Although Israeli Premier Menachem Begin voiced no objections to the Sadat-Peres meeting, other Israeli officials did not disguise their displeasure. With some justice, they believe that Sadat would much prefer to see Peres as Israel's Premier. Seeing him as a potential successor to Begin, Sadat-in this Israeli view-may be trying to hold off from re-entering serious negotiations with Begin and his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan...
Pertini had been among the early favorites soon after the electors gathered to choose a successor to Giovanni Leone, who abruptly resigned last month in a cloud of scandal over alleged tax evasion and financial improprieties. Pertini's Socialist Party, the country's third largest, had aggressively sought the presidency from the start, as a sign that it was not about to be submerged by the growing accord of Italy's two dominant parties, the Christian Democrats and Communists...
...seventh seat was vacated by Burns, and Carter has decided to appoint a woman to an institution once so male chauvinist that it took Eleanor Roosevelt to crash the men-only rule in the board's dining room. The successor is Nancy Teeters, 47, the chief economist of the House Budget Committee. She was chosen largely because she has strong liberal views that she argues forcefully; Carter sees the board, Miller excepted, as a hotbed of Hoover Republicanism...
Accompanying Mondale, at U.S.-Government expense, were more than a dozen prominent U.S. Jewish leaders, including Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the outgoing chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and his successor, Theodore Mann. The White House hoped their presence might persuade the Israelis that the Administration's Middle East policies enjoy the backing of the American Jewish community. (Other U.S. Jewish leaders, however, refused to join the Mondale entourage.) From Israel, the Vice President planned to stop briefly in Egypt to see President Anwar Sadat...