Word: successors
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When Jimmy Carter left the White House, he wished two enduring headaches on his successor: Israel's combative Prime Minister Menachem Begin and ABC News' abrasive White House correspondent Sam Donaldson. Last month, when Ronald Reagan spoke at a ceremony extolling the achievements of ABC News President Roone Arledge, Reagan added: "Sam Donaldson is a small price to pay." Not many people would cherish having provoked Chief Executives as diverse as Carter and Reagan. But Donaldson, 49, has gleefully made himself perhaps the best-known TV reporter in America by asking pertinent questions of Presidents in the most...
General Galtieri faded from the political landscape shortly after Argentinian troops began to disappear from the Falkland Islands. The military still retain control of the country, but Galtieri's successor, General Reynaldo Bignone, has been operating from a very different position from that of his predecessor. The defeat in the Falklands reinforced the hostile civilian attitude toward the military government that was prevalent before the war and Bignone has been feeling very serious pressure, both politically and economically. During the past year, inflation in Argentina hovered at 210 percent while the country suffered a severe recession...
What he may not yet realize is that the Soviets will be tough to remove a second time--especially if they succeed in undermining Mubarak's credibility with the West, forcing him or some shaky successor to embrace his Russian guests as the only viable alternative for support. Worse, Mubarak's unpredictability may exacerbate Israeli fears. The Begin government has consistently warned that it will never tolerate the existence of an independent Palestinian state armed to the teeth with Soviet weapons. Direct Soviet influence in Egypt, until now not considered a factor, would lend immediacy to the Israeli argument...
Frahm does not have anyone specific in mind as his successor. "It's not as easy as it looks," he said yesterday of the bell, which is rung in a set pattern with a common dining, half knife. Although he would "definitely like to see someone play next year," he added that he would like only one successor, who appreciates the timing needed to produce an effective crowd response...
Labor Leader Marvin Miller has retired. Fewer cranky voices have been heard this spring, but there is no less talk of money. In recognition of cutting a billion-dollar deal with television, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn has been mentioned as a possible successor to Bowie Kuhn. The new diet fad, "weight clauses," has been somewhat annoying to fans who regard being in shape as the minimum requirement for being a professional athlete. Every Friday home game this season that Atlanta Third Base man Bob Horner does not warp the scale past 215 Ibs., he gains $7,692.31. Ozzie Smith, the Cardinals...