Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grigory V. Romanov, but speculation also includes the hawkish Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov, who seems singlehandedly to have masterminded much of Russia's military buildup Further, Ustinov is one of the major power-brokers in the Politburo and is likely to influence heavily the choice of Andropov's successor. Although it would be wrong to overstate the United States' influence on the selection, it seems foolish for the administration to push the Soviets into the arms of two particularly conservative candidates with its hawkish remarks...
Although Pipes did not predict a specific successor, he said that the Soviets would want a strong leader after the demoralization and trauma of having two ailing presidents...
Rosovsky, too, had only high praise for a man who was one of his graduate students when he first came to Harvard in the late 1960s. The current dean said his main advice for his successor was to ready for the unexpected, and said that in one of their first meetings after Spence accepted the job he had passed along a piece of advice he had received when he first became dean...
...French Smith, the Californian crony of Reagan's who served as Meese's Justice Department accomplice in his tax-credit government secrecy seams. It seems destined for the dustbin, if Reagan gets his way on appointing the at table-but highly ideological ex California D A as Smith's successor...
...contrast, Bundy's successor, historian Franklin L. Ford, concentrated on the expansion of Harvard's undergraduate applicant pool, which reached nation wide proportions in the 1960's. His reign came to an end in the late '60s, when student turbulence swept college campuses...