Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successor was immediately named. In his announcement to the squad Wednesday, Shattuck said he would find his successor personally...
...authorities once more lashed out at the foreign press, this time calling for the expulsion of the outgoing New York Times Johannesburg bureau chief Alan Cowell, 39, a British citizen who has reported from South Africa since 1983. More troubling, Pretoria also rejected the visa application of Cowell's successor, Serge Schmemann. That left a major U.S. daily newspaper without the staff to report the news in South Africa, despite entreaties from Times editors in New York City and U.S. embassy officials. Cowell, whose work permit expired last June, had been allowed to remain in the country while his application...
...fuselage that breathes speed, the swanlike aircraft is designed to penetrate Soviet air defenses, unleashing nuclear-tipped missiles at targets deep inside the country. But skeptics lampooned the B-1B -- at $283 million a copy the most expensive plane in aviation history -- as an unnecessary and probably unworkable interim successor to the aging B-52s, and in 1977 President Jimmy Carter scuttled the project. Newly elected Ronald Reagan revived the B-1B in 1981, ordering 100 of the bombers, but as production approaches the halfway point, critics in the Pentagon and elsewhere are decrying the plane as something...
...issue is broader than just the fate of the B-1B program, which will have cost nearly $30 billion by the time the last plane is delivered in 1988. Close on its heels is the successor aircraft, Northrop Corp.'s so-called Stealth bomber, supposedly even less visible to enemy defenses and better able to penetrate to targets. Plans call for producing 132 Stealth planes, with a projected price tag said to top $40 billion...
Moreover, the consortium must find a successor to Bobby Inman, the former CIA deputy director, who left his post as chairman of MCC at the end of 1986. Inman, who says he now wants to concentrate on bringing advanced technology to the marketplace, will head Westmark Systems, a new holding company that will acquire high-tech defense-industry firms...