Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last July for an hour and 45 minutes, I told him that Ronald Reagan was a very popular leader and that Gorbachev should look beyond the Reagan presidency. If Reagan leaves office without having achieved an agreement, he could be a formidable opponent of any agreement his successor reaches. It's possible that Gorbachev now wants to get Reagan involved in arms control, give him a stake in the process, so that he won't mobilize opposition to it in the future...
...members together hold 15% of the bank's stock, providing effective control. They picked as Barnes' acting replacement Nathan Pearson, 75, a longtime financial adviser to Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who holds 9% of the bank's shares. Heading the search committee that begins meeting this week to find Barnes' successor is Andrew Mathieson, who advises the heirs of Andrew Mellon's nephew, Richard King Mellon. Two names are believed to have the committee's interest: David Nordby, 47, executive vice president of Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank; and Silas Keehn, 56, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Both...
...both sides renewed the old battle, Lehman's successor, James Webb, pointed out that the Midway will be 50 years old by the time it can be replaced. But the highest Navy officer, Admiral William Crowe, who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fired a shot across the fleet's bow by arguing that "painful choices have to be made." The admiral said he would give higher priority to such matters as "modern munitions, antisubmarine warfare and the SSN ((attack submarine)) program." That may have sounded like mutiny to the Navy, but some budgeteers on Capitol Hill were applauding...
...tight schedule that reaches a climax with the Olympics. President Chun Doo Hwan, a former general, has also been fitting presidential politics into the program. Chun promised to revise the constitution so that when he leaves office in February 1988 -- the first Korean President to do so voluntarily -- his successor would be more democratically chosen...
...That successor is likely to be Roh Tae Woo, another ex-general and currently chairman of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. A former classmate of the President, Roh commanded the Seoul garrison that was instrumental in bringing Chun to office in the military scramble for power that followed the assassination of President Park Chung...