Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...START of October, shortly after the announcement that Walter J. Leonard, the University's affirmative action officer, had been offered the presidency of Fisk University, members of the Task Force on Affirmative Action called for a role in the search for his successor. They reiterated their position later in October, in a letter to President Bok requesting that the task force be permitted to play a key role. But Bok responded in November, stating that he would welcome only informal student advice...
Intense Contest. The Senate showdown will come on Jan. 4, the day the 95th Congress convenes. The Democrats will select a successor to the retiring majority leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana, and the Republicans a new minority leader to replace retiring Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania...
Peking, as well as Washington, seems to be undergoing probes by the Soviets. Hua Kuo-feng, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's successor, is at least as unfamiliar a face to the Russians as is Jimmy Carter. In contrast to its get-tough attitude toward Washington, the Kremlin seems to be holding an olive branch out to the Chinese. Since Mao's death, Radio Moscow's Chinese-language broadcasts have been stressing that "the fundamental interests in the two countries are identical." Recent speeches by Soviet officials have been notable for the absence of any political references that...
...settle for someone acceptable to other factions. The post is now held by lowan Mary Louise Smith, who was selected by Gerald Ford after he became President in 1974. But she is expected to follow tradition and resign voluntarily, probably at next month's executive committee meeting. Her successor would then be named at the full Republican National Committee meeting scheduled for January...
...Minnesota, where politics is supposed to be as clear as the trout streams, the deal seemed clouded with back room smoke. Soon, two-term Governor Wendell Anderson, 43, will resign. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich, 48, will then appoint Anderson to the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Walter Mondale...