Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday the Reagans called on the Carters. Meeting with his successor, the President ticked off his list of priorities, domestic and foreign, and spoke at length of Iran, the hostages and the Middle East. Carter also urged Reagan to back pending legislation that would provide a fund to clean up chemical wastes, and he hinted that Reagan was "wise" in re-evaluating his opposition to the embargo of grain sales to the Soviet Union. Declared Reagan later: "Let me sum by saying it was a rather complete briefing." Carter was pleased with the way things had gone. Said one aide...
...State Department announced last week that the Carter Administration put off a decision on the aid indefinitely, leaving the matter for its successor. But Washington officials were already raising questions about the security of Western loans to East bloc nations, which now total about $70 billion. The matter is also increasingly being seen as a test of Moscow's willingness to bail out its overextended satellites. "It is not just a question of loans and credits and money," says a senior member of the Belgium banking community, "but a supreme matter of state in East-West relations...
Four Law School professors considered prime candidates to become the school's next dean recently declined to be interviewed by students, dealing another blow to student efforts to be included in the choice of a successor to Albert M: Sacks, current dean of the Law School, who will step down next summer...
Manley's successor is Edward Seaga, 50, American-born, Harvard-educated leader of the Jamaica Labor Party. An experienced international economist whose campaign promised closer ties with the U.S., Seaga has already obtained financing from commercial banks to cover the country's $157 million debt through the end of the year. The shootouts that terrorized Kingston's slums during the bloody nine-month campaign have tapered off as a result of nightly curfews and police raids; tourist bookings are picking up again, and Jamaican professionals who went into exile during the hard times of Manley...
...chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee is so powerful that the last man who held it, Wilbur Mills, was able to jump into the Washington Tidal Basin with Stripper Fanne Foxe and still win reelection. But his successor, Al Ullman of Oregon, did something even worse in the eyes of many constituents: he proposed a national value-added tax, which to many .voters in his district sounded suspiciously like the state sales tax that they had repeatedly rejected in referendums. In addition, while Ullman clambered up the rungs of power on Capitol Hill, he visited his home folks...