Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music on his morning radio but not yet knowing that a Soviet notable had died, prepared himself for a stressful day by a half-hour jog through the capital's slippery streets. His weekend turned into a marathon of interviews with Soviet and diplomatic sources about the possible successor to President Andropov...
...foreign dignitaries who will file through the Kremlin's Hall of St. George after the ceremony to express their official condolences. Andropov had used that role to make his debut before the foreign community, conveying the idea that his nation could weather a change of leadership without crisis. His successor would surely want to do the same...
...rule effectively, he will have to count on the support of some combination of backers from the three main pillars of Soviet power: the party bureaucracy, the military and the technocratic elite. But imponderables remain. Will the small group of men, whose average age is now 67, choose a successor from the older group and risk another short-lived regime or will they make the bold decision to turn power over to a younger generation that is thinly represented in the inner circle of power...
...historical and psychological divide. Most of them can measure the history of the Communist regime by the decades in their lives. They were born and reared amid revolution, reached maturity during despotism and global war, and grew old building a fortress nation second to none. As they choose a successor to Andropov, the old guard may feel reluctant to pass this awesome legacy to an untried younger generation, as if the transfer were somehow not inevitable. But the paradox remains that the longer the old men cling to power, the more they endanger the very thing they have sought...
DEREK BOK must be pretty pleased with himself. From his point of view, the main thing to watch out for in picking a successor to Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky was not picking another Henry Rosovsky. This is not to denigrate the outgoing dean, whose 11-year tenure will surely be looked upon as a success in dealing with the gut issues of the job--from straightening out the Faculty's finances to making strong Faculty appointments to revitalizing the undergraduate curriculum. But just as you don't "replace" Tom Landry as coach of the Dallas Cowboys...