Word: successors
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...letter dispatched to the president of the National Assembly and read to the public, Royo declared that he could no longer carry out his responsibilities "due to health problems that make a checkup necessary." Shortly after his Vice President, Ricardo de la Espriella, 47, was sworn in as his successor, Royo explained that a "throat infection" had seriously hampered his ability to govern...
Last week Caltech, J.P.L.'s parent institution, which operates under contract with NASA, announced Murray's successor: former Air Force Chief of Staff General Lew Allen Jr., 56. The appointment continues a trend to garb the U.S. space program in Air Force blue. Earlier this year Air Force Major General James Abrahamson was put in charge of the shuttle. Former Air Force Secretary Hans Mark is NASA'S deputy administrator, the agency's No. 2 job. And the shuttle wears symbolic wings; through fiscal 1985, a fourth of its missions will be for the Air Force...
...numbers. . . . The Shi'ites believe that the leadership of Islam should have remained in the Prophet's family. The Sunnis prefer to make such decisions by consensus. The Shi'ites supported Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law All, who became the fourth Caliph, or successor, before his assassination in 661. According to the Shi'ites, Ali and his descendants were Imams, divinely guided leaders and mediators between God and man. The last of twelve Imams disappeared in 940, and is believed to be in hiding, awaiting the right moment to re-emerge and establish...
...conditions were far from ideal for making a foreign policy decision so fraught with risk. Alexander Haig, who had tried and failed to take charge of Administration policy, was vacationing at a mountain resort in West Virginia after his removal as Secretary of State. His designated successor, George Shultz, was in San Francisco, packing for his move to Washington and awaiting his Senate confirmation hearings this week. President Reagan was on an extended Fourth of July holiday at his five-room adobe ranch house in California's Santa Ynez Mountains. With most of his top aides scattered, the President...
...best surprise of the production is Prince Hal, originally to have been played by Richard Thomas, who withdrew to work on a television film. His successor is Chris Sarandon, whose Hal turns out to be just splendid. I had seen him on stage and screen in modern parts, but nothing prepared me for the admirably trained classical actor he proves to be. Sarandon is now 40, but he has no trouble convincing us that he is a young man half his age, right down to the way he lolls on a bench He speaks clearly, clearly, and musically...