Word: successors
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...remember Bourguiba as the hero of independence," says a foreign analyst. "For them, he is the paramount symbol of the status quo, and they can curse him one day and cheer him the next." As the time approaches when Bourguiba will have to pass his power to a successor, Tunisia's stability may depend on the regime's success in satisfying that new and volatile constituency...
January 4--President Bok announces that his decision on a successor to Henry Rosovsky as Dean of the Faculty is imminent. Press releases end with a row of six mysterious hieroglyphics. Two days later, the same characters appear on a large banner hung out the front windows of Mass Hall. Bok, in response to questions, only chuckles, adding, "Secrecy is clarity...
...Houston standards, diligent local coverage; it won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1965. Yet despite the bi-partisan political involvement of family members-including the paper's late chairman, William Hobby, who was Democratic Governor of Texas from 1917 to 1921, and his widow and successor Oveta Gulp Hobby, who was, under President Eisenhower, the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare-the paper rarely crusaded. For four days after the New York Times published the classified Pentagon papers in 1971, the Post did not even mention the disclosures. The initial reaction of the younger William Hobby...
Alfonsín named nine generals and admirals, including three former Presidents: General Jorge Videla, who presided over the early days of the dirty war; General Roberto Viola, Videla's successor; and General Leopoldo Galtieri, author of the doomed attempt to capture the Falkland Islands last year. Alfonsín's decree called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which includes high-ranking officers from all three services, to pass "summary judgment" on the accused officers. Alfonsín announced that seven left-wing terrorists active during the '70s would be tried by civil courts...
...Rifaat Assad, Hafez's younger brother and the tough-hearted head of internal security, Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas. Even if Assad should die or become seriously incapacitated, sparking a ferocious power struggle, U.S. officials expect little change in Syrian policy once a successor emerges. "Damascus would be no less hostile to Israel and the U.S. and no less militarily dependent on the Soviet Union," says a U.S. analyst. "Syria is going to pursue the same pattern of behavior no matter who is in charge...