Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After filing their petitions to run, the three candidates announced that they would meet privately in an attempt to negotiate the choice of Nakasone's successor among themselves. If that effort fails, L.D.P. members will hold a vote next week...
...Iacocca demanded to know why this was being done to the man who fathered the Mustang and had just led Ford to two years of record profits. Ford shrugged his shoulders and said, "Sometimes you just don't like somebody." In 1980 Philip Caldwell was picked as Ford's successor...
Transkei, the oldest of the independent homelands, is a case in point. Its first Prime Minister, Kaiser Matanzima, now 72, quickly established an authoritarian presence and installed his younger brother George as his successor when he became President in 1979. Together the Matanzimas managed to acquire large amounts of state land to add to their already substantial farming interests. More recently, however, the brothers had a falling out. The rift was exacerbated when Kaiser, now semiretired, feared that George, 68, was about to be unseated as a result of corruption charges. Two weeks ago, while George was recuperating from...
...agreement on a single candidate." While party mediators scrambled to bring the Kims together again, both men seemed bent on pursuing their own paths. Unless one gives way, they will divide the opposition vote against Roh Tae Woo, head of the ruling Democratic Justice Party and the designated successor of South Korea's autocratic President, Chun Doo Hwan...
...with Interior Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali, who has led the crackdown on the fundamentalists. "You will not see any steps toward greater pluralism now," / commented one worried Western diplomat. Indeed, Bourguiba has knocked out his opposition so effectively that many fear there is now no credible successor, and that when he dies the radical fundamentalists will leap to fill the political void...