Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Montazeri, 64. One of Iran's most revered holy men, Montazeri has ties to Khomeini that go back more than 40 years, to the time when Montazeri was a student of the revolutionary cleric in the holy city of Qum. A year ago, Montazeri was designated Khomeini's successor as spiritual leader of Iran. His clout is already substantial. He appoints members of the Supreme Judicial Council, Iran's highest court, and is the "supreme guide" for the country's universities and seminaries. Other leaders, though, have recently been intriguing to curb his growing influence...
...cover began coming off first in Iran, when supporters of Khomeini's chosen successor, Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, started clandestinely distributing pamphlets accusing the regime of surreptitious contacts with the U.S. Specifically, they claimed that Rafsanjani had met with nameless American emissaries in Iran. Last week several members of the group were reportedly arrested in Iran, charged with distributing leaflets that were "in line with the vicious attempts of the counterrevolutionaries...
Paul Laxalt. His luster was dimmed by the loss of his handpicked successor in the Nevada Senate race. Even worse, he put his prestige and the President's on the line after ignoring party entreaties not to give up the seat...
Though McCain is a staunch conservative on most matters, befitting a successor to Goldwater, he is something of an independent on foreign policy. He supports sanctions against South Africa and favors military aid to the Nicaraguan contras but strongly opposes direct U.S. intervention in Central America. McCain has curbed his formidable temper but not his irreverent humor: he got off one of the best quips of the campaign at Goldwater's expense. McCain recalled Goldwater's saying that if he had been elected President in 1964 and had put his hawkish policies into effect, McCain would never have wound...
Jacoby brought the conflict to a boil when he abruptly pushed aside a potential successor, Donald Zuckert, president of Ted Bates Advertising/New York. At the same time, Jacoby elevated two of his favorites without getting any nod from the Saatchis. The brothers retaliated by dumping Jacoby from the top job and installing Zuckert. The combative Jacoby heightened the melodrama, whether intentionally or not, by removing his portrait from a prominent wall at the agency and by accusing the Saatchis of breaking his five-year contract. "I don't know what happened. They hadn't told me they were going...