Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost unbelievable shock," said Ulf Adelsohn, leader of the conservative opposition in the country's one-house parliament. "Sweden will never be the same after this." Following an all-night meeting of key Swedish leaders, Acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, who was promptly designated Palme's successor as party chief, announced that the government would be dissolved, but would act on an interim basis until parliament meets this week to choose a new Prime Minister. Said Carlsson: "This was a blow not just to Olof Palme and his family but to Sweden as an open society...
...rewrite the constitution--but once again, not until after 1988. The opposition response: if the 1988 presidential elections come under the current constitution, which leaves the voting to an electoral college likely to be dominated by members sympathetic to Chun's party, Chun will be able to handpick a successor. Chun replied that the President elected in 1988 would vow to hold elections again, in 1989, under the new rules...
Consequently, this year's staff is the only legitimate successor to the first Harvard Political Review staff in 1969. My former colleagues and I will support--financially and morally--any magazine they put together, even if it is no longer allowed to bear the title Harvard Political Review. A staff chosen by other means--including students the institute picks--has no right to run this magazine. Put bluntly, they are interlopers who have inherited the Review through force and intimidation...
Their aim was to rid the country of the flag that Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier introduced in 1965 and that has since come to symbolize the dictatorial rule of the Duvaliers. Last week, six days after Papa Doc's son and successor, President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had fled to France with his family to avoid a bloody popular uprising, the hated standard was pulled down for the last time. Beginning this week, on the orders of Haiti's new five-man ruling government council, the palace guard will hoist the red-and-blue Haitian flag that...
...Chicago "for the rest of my life," nonetheless acknowledges, "There may be some point at which you no longer have anything to learn from doing work with the same people you have been with for years, and who have the same strengths and weaknesses that you do." Mosher's successor Falls, who directs around the country, says that the Chicago scene's future depends equally on attracting young talent willing to work cheap and developing more institutions capable of challenging established artists. Although the Chicago League of Theaters has 109 members, only a handful pay Actors Equity-scale wages...