Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Party has been facing the question of who will ultimately replace Deng. He complicated the problem by purging his own chosen heir, the reform-minded party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who was relieved of his job in 1987 for not quickly crushing student demonstrations. Hu's replacement as designated successor was Zhao, who now appears to have also fallen victim to Deng's displeasure...
...assassination? Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, the leading candidate to replace Coelho, had to ask Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...
Khomeini's reassertion of radical Islamic rejectionism soon claimed his appointed successor, Ayatullah Ali Montazeri, 65, as a victim. Montazeri had harshly criticized the war with Iraq and did not endorse the killing of Rushdie. In late March he was forced to resign...
John Kenneth Galbraith, former ambassador to India and friend of the family says, "Her father regarded Benazir as his natural successor all along. She was a very sophisticated and intelligent undergraduate, and she has always shown great political skill...
...struggles were many, from President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to the executive director of an activist alumni group and the long-disenfranchised junior faculty of the History Department. One long-time figure, Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, prepared her departure, and her successor, University of Michigan administrator Linda S. Wilson, was named. Committee chairs and department heads, vice presidents and academic deans continued, as always, to control the day-to-day functions of the University, sometimes answering, sometimes ignoring the host of demands for change...