Word: successors
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William E. Colby had just returned from Richard Welch's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. Still dressed in a somber charcoal gray pin-stripe suit and dark tie, the CIA Director held a 90-minute interview with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott. Colby's successor-designate, George Bush, is expected to be confirmed by the Senate shortly after Congress reconvenes next week. Soon after that Colby will retire, ending a quarter-century in the CIA. In the excerpts, Colby gives his personal views on a number of issues involving the record of the CIA and its proper role...
Krister Stendhal steps down as dean of the Divinity School, saying, "If God had intended me to stay on, He wouldn't have had President Bok ask me to retire." In his search for Stendhal's successor, Bok is reported to be considering Robert Moses, Deane Lord, Jesus Alou, Isaiah Robertson, Frank Church, Adam Clayton Powell and Yves Montand...
...rdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels' second, more ambitious goal: that Argentina's military should remove Isabel Perón as President and replace her with General Jorge Rafael Videla, the wiry and astute commander of the army. President Perón, meanwhile, cheerfully...
...favored candidate of the Dutch hierarchy was Alfrink's top assistant in Utrecht, Anton Vermeulen. But the Curia found Vermeulen too independent-minded, and Paul may also have been reluctant to appear to recognize any right of the Dutch bishops to pick Alfrink's successor...
...driving force behind the merger was Fred Borch's successor as GE chairman, Reginald Jones, 58. Jones has had to deal with a profit slump at GE. The company's net earnings fell 14% in the first nine months of this year after reaching a record $608 million in 1974. One reason is that GE has been losing money on fixed-price orders for atomic power plants; lead times on such projects are long and cost overruns can be breathtakingly high. Jones says that GE sees Utah as "an important opportunity in the natural-resources industry." Some Wall...