Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signaled that Mexico would be at the top of his foreign policy agenda by making a courtesy call on José López Portillo, who was then President. Reagan made a second trip south of the border to offer neighborly greetings to López Portillo's successor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. But when the President traveled to Mexico for a return visit with De la Madrid last week, all of that good will was put to the test. The reason: profound disagreement between the U.S. and Mexico over how to handle the crisis in Central America...
...Third World. He is expected to retire in 1985, after 13 years in office. His replacement will be chosen by the 145-member central committee elected last week, with the Rev. Heinz Joachim Held of West Germany, 55, as its new presiding officer. For Held and Potter's successor, the council's delicate balancing act will undoubtedly continue without letup. -By Richard N. Ostling
Neither would Soviet prestige. Some European officials and some members of the Reagan Administration have convinced themselves that Andropov is aching for a summit as a kind of status symbol, to prove his legitimacy as Leonid Brezhnev's successor and to underscore the Soviet Union's standing as an equal of the U.S. Yet it is just as plausible that Andropov is under pressure to prove to his hard-line comrades that he is tough enough to hold out for a summit on his own terms. Nor is it realistic to think that a productive summit...
...misguided embargoes against West European suppliers of parts for the Soviets' natural gas pipeline. Clark urged Reagan to stick to an unrealistically hard line in defending the size of this year's defense budget increase. He also sponsored Kenneth Adelman to be Eugene Rostow's successor as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, despite Adelman's unfamiliarity with arms control issues. Last spring Clark encouraged Reagan to go ahead with his curious star wars missile-defense speech despite the cautions of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Shultz. "It's the first time...
Under the terms of the constitution, Hirohito's successor will have little opportunity to extend imperial power. Meanwhile, though most of Hirohito's subjects regard him with fond bemusement, some are beginning to suggest privately that he should abdicate. But the Emperor remains steadfast. When questioned once about his long reign, His Imperial Majesty simply recited a proverb: "Not even under the heaviest snowfall will willow trees snap." -By Pico Iyer...