Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crossroads town where his extraordinary journey to power had begun. Absorbed by his book, he has deliberately closed himself off from the rest of the world. In political terms, he has vanished so completely that he might almost never have existed. Shunned by his fellow Democrats, ignored by his successor, Carter has virtually become a nonperson, a President who never...
...President sees his successor eventually edging toward. Carter-like policies on arms control and the Middle East. He sharply disagrees with Reagan's assertion that the Soviets have a definite margin of superiority in strategic weapons. "Reagan is flat wrong about that," he said, sounding like a man who knows the facts. "Even if it were true, which it isn't, it's an extremely unwise thing...
...salvation may be Egypt-a bitter irony, since no Arab country has opposed the Camp David peace process more angrily than Iraq. Nor has anyone more outspokenly denounced the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel than Saddam Hussein. But Sadat is dead, and his successor, President Hosni Mubarak, is anxious to end Egypt's estrangement from the other moderate Arab states...
...retirement of Admiral Bobby Inman as deputy director of the CIA two weeks ago, members of both parties on Capitol Hill loudly lamented the loss of their favorite spy. Who, they wondered, could they possibly trust and respect as much as Inman? The Reagan Administration came up with a successor last week who pleased many of the doubters. He is John N. McMahon, 52, now the No. 3 man at the CIA. Said Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson: "He's a first-rate pro." Observed Admiral Stansfield Turner, who headed the CIA from 1977 to 1981: "John...
Just nine year later, Arevalo's involution, which had made real progress in relieving the poor from grinding poverty, came to its unnatural end. The CIA, with the full support of President Eisenhower, deposed Arevalo's successor Jacob Arbenz and installed a military government. Since that day, Roosevelt's freedom has disappeared, reforms have been obliterated, and thousands of Guatemalans have died at the hands of rightist death squads. Guatemala, which for a brief decade was a source of hope for moderate progressives the world over, is now a human-rights disaster area...