Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to spot future leaders. Most of the aging party chiefs will almost certainly be replaced by technocrats in the Gorbachev mold. In Bulgaria, for example, Mining Engineer Chudomir Alexandrov, 49, has just been promoted to the powerful post of central committee secretary, and looms as a potential successor to Zhivkov. In Czechoslovakia a quiet changing of the guard is under way. Says a highly placed official in his 40s: "The older ones are going, and we're taking over." In Hungary the fading power and health of Janos Kadar, 73, are sparking a succession debate at the top level...
...choose more than 5,000 electors, who in turn select a President. Chun has suggested that the 1988 elections be held on schedule in the traditional fashion. The winner could then oversee a constitutional reform and direct elections in 1989. His opponents, who fear that Chun's hand-picked successor may renege on such an agreement, want constitutional reform now. Under pressure from Washington, Chun finally allowed the opposition to organize rallies to collect signatures of support for the proposed reform...
...Carbide has opened new negotiations with the Indian government. Whatever the outcome, Union Carbide Chairman Warren M. Anderson, 64, will soon put the Bhopal ordeal behind him. Last week the company named Robert D. Kennedy, 53, the president of Carbide's chemicals and plastics division, as Anderson's successor. Anderson, who had been planning to retire just before the Bhopal tragedy struck, will step down in November...
...chiller came last December when Piecyk read about the Manhattan sidewalk slaying of Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family, one of the nation's most powerful Mafia groups. Newspapers identified Gotti, 45, who has served six years for attempted manslaughter and other crimes, as the probable successor to Castellano; some reports suggested that he might have been involved in the killing. Piecyk also read that after Gotti's son Frank, 12, was killed in 1979 when struck by a car driven by Gotti's neighbor John Favara, the neighbor mysteriously vanished; Favara has never been found...
Unlike the three Crimson hurlers, Beal and his successor on the mound, P.J. Horgan, had their share of control problems...