Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researchers, a far cry from the 12,000 under his command at the State Department. The senior members are longtime Kissinger colleagues -- and proteges -- who bring their own distinction: former Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and retired General Brent Scowcroft, who was Kissinger's deputy and then successor as National Security Adviser. But what sets this firm apart from others is Kissinger, who retains his clout even though he was frozen out by the Reagan Administration. Kissinger is sole owner of the firm, which grosses an estimated $5 million a year...
...someone to fill the newly created post of executive editor. McCulloch turned the job down but agreed to run day-to-day operations until the slot is filled. Hearst dismisses any suggestion that if he insists on ultimate control of the newsroom he may have trouble finding a successor to Burgin. "I give as free a hand as there is in journalism today," he says. "Ultimately, I could stay ) home in a bathtub and phone in ideas. If that works, great." But lolling in the suds does not seem to be his style, especially since he has put his reputation...
...foreign policy primacy have been retired one by one from the inner circle. U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Clark, a California crony of Reagan's who was National Security Adviser and supposedly the strong man of foreign policy when Shultz took office, have left the Government. Clark's successor, Robert McFarlane, took a front-and-center role in articulating policy for a while before Reagan's November summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, but soon afterward he too resigned...
...ever-shrinking fragments. A symbol that belonged to my youth was desecrated on the same screen that had proclaimed the invulnerability of all such voyagers that held true to all-American virtues of quiet loyalty and bravery. But all was not lost, for the television promised an even greater successor: yes, Star Trek IV was on its way at Warp Factor 9 to continue the mission of the atomized Starship Enterprise...
...unclear whether Harvard will solicit the opinions and concerns of the general student population about the next admissions dean, as it did one year ago for the successor to former Dean of the College John...