Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible successor is Preston Martin, the California businessman whom Reagan named Federal Reserve vice chairman last year. Walter Wriston, chairman of Citicorp and an outside Reagan adviser, is also mentioned, as are three former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers: Herbert Stein and Paul McCracken, who served under Richard Nixon, and Alan Greenspan, who was Gerald Ford's top guru...
...Institute of Technology. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi and met Menachem Begin. In 1980, while he was serving as a right-wing legislator who had opposed the peace treaty with Egypt, Arens turned down the chance to become Ezer Weizman's successor as Defense Minister, apparently because he did not want to be in charge of the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the Sinai...
Although the authority, which receives funds from the Federal Job Training Partnership Act the successor of the CETA program--already acts as a "big employment agency" for Cambridge residents, it only provides aid for income-eligible clients. "We wanted to make this service available to other people too." Sullivan said, so the council approved an additional $69,000 allocation in December for the creation of the independent citizen's employment program...
...mysteries of Indian politics is why the world's largest democracy has produced so few leaders of national quality. Mrs. Gandhi, the daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, spent years grooming her ambitious younger son Sanjay as her ultimate successor. After Sanjay was killed in an air crash in 1980, she turned to her elder son Rajiv, 31, a former commercial airline pilot. So far, Rajiv has shown little flair for politics, but never mind that. He is Indira Gandhi's surviving son and thus the heir apparent to the House of Nehru, whose...
...niceties won him no friends. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and General George Strong, head of military intelligence, labored to eliminate the oss as a threat to their own intelligence functions. After the war, President Harry Truman pointedly chose not to name Donovan head of the OSS's successor, the Central Intelligence Agency...