Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With some foreign statesmen, Makarios could be cold and obstinate. With his own people, however, he was warm and effusive. Although he suffered a mild heart attack earlier this year, Cypriots were unprepared for his death. The vigorous archbishop had never really designated a successor. The mourning, as a result, was electric as Greeks filed past the bier, where he lay in splendid gold crown and mantle. The Greek Cypriot government declared a 40-day mourning period...
...independent unified Cyprus in my lifetime," Makarios added, and he was right. In 1975 the Turks declared their own Turkish Federated State of Cyprus; last week the only notice this rump government took of Makarios' passing was to announce flatly that it would not recognize his successor as the leader of a united Cyprus...
...million house is not a home-and it no longer symbolizes California. As just about everybody knows by now Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, refuses to inspect, much less inhabit the abode, conspicuously preferring to bunk downtown in a modest $275-a-month apartment. Today this monument to the California dream stands cold and mute, an incongruous reminder of an era that no longer exists...
Real Center. Lefebvre based his revolt on history. "We are acting for the good of the church," he insisted. "Who is the Pope? What is the Vatican? It is only the residence for Peter's successor. The real center is the Holy Church. If they ask us what is our future, then we say, 'Our future is our past.' " With that, he ordained-against Vatican orders -14 priests and 16 subdeacons, an act that could start the century's largest Roman Catholic schism...
Russell's successor, Lawyer Joseph Rutherford, later explained that the "last days" had indeed begun in 1914, but that Christ's rule had been established only in heaven, and that his Second Coming had occurred, but as a spiritual event. Because Satan still runs the earth, the Witnesses persistently refuse to serve in any army or to salute any flag -even if they must go to jail...