Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gandhi's confidence in her authority caused her to foster the political ascendancy of her son Sanjay, thereby provoking the accusation that she was attempting to continue the Nehru dynasty into a third generation. Sanjay, though, lacked political experience and would hardly have been a competent successor to his mother, or anyone else. By making him the head of the Congress Party's youth wing, Gandhi not only supplanted several senior party leaders, but she also disregarded an Indian political ethos which holds that age and experience deserve proper respect. After all, Sanjay was little more than a rich, rowdy...
...holdover from the Ford Administration, McLucas resigned last week?as previously planned?from the post of FAA Administrator. As his successor, Jimmy Carter has nominated Langhorne M. Bond, 40, the secretary of the Illinois department of transportation. Bond will have the job of finding ways to develop the necessary devices and programs to reduce even further the hazards of flying. Then Bond will have to persuade and direct the nation's great airline companies to do what is best. It need not be that difficult an assignment: as a whole, the industry has been willing and often eager to spend...
...State Henry Kissinger. It was thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...held the government responsible for a number of hated events: the excesses of the sterilization program: the forced removal of tens of thousands from city slums; and the ever growing political present of Sanjay Ghandhi, who was seen as an evil influence on his mother and as the possible successor to her dynastic power...
...Leopard won the competition, the U.S. would also accept it as its major armored vehicle for the mid-1980s. The decision was hailed as an important step toward equipment standardization within NATO-until U.S. military pride and industry pressure opposed it. As a compromise, Schlesinger's successor, Donald Rumsfeld, worked out an agreement in principle with the Germans to make both tanks "interoperable." The XM1 would take the 120-mm. smooth-bored gun used in the German tank; the Leopard II would use the engine assembly of the American vehicle...