Word: successors
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...perhaps the greatest change at Harvard in a decade and a half has been the style of its executive leader, President Bok was chosen as Pusey's successor in 1971 largely because administrators felt he might show a new responsiveness to student concerns and might be what Dunlop calls a more flexible "crisis manager," "Even when Bok rejects student demands, he gives the impression that he has thought them through," says Maier, adding, "By 1969, Pusey had lost that capacity...
...different story emerged. Following a clandestine meeting of its Central Committee last December, the F.P.L. accused its deceased founder of "grave political, ideological and moral deformations," and of ordering Anaya Monies' murder. As a sign of its new, "moderate" direction, it named as Cayetano Carpio's successor Leonel González, 39, a former schoolteacher whose revolutionary specialty is underground organizing. The F.P.L. also acknowledged the breakaway of a more violence-prone splinter faction, the Salvador Cayetano Carpio Revolutionary Workers' Movement...
...gone to the Greenbrier, an isolated resort in West Virginia, to escape the postresignation curiosity of Washington, but continued, minute by minute, to manage the Middle East crisis. The President had decided that I should remain Secretary of State until my successor was sworn in, or until the President wanted me to do otherwise...
...July 5, all the pieces were falling into place. I believed that by July 9, four days hence, the P.L.O. withdrawal could commence and the conditions for peace in Lebanon would have been established. At that moment, George Shultz, my nominated successor, who was with the President in California, called to discuss "future arrangements." He said he wanted me to become a "consultant." I told Shultz that I was prepared to step aside whenever the President wanted, but I could not accept the role he was describing...
...fronts at once: against his colleagues in the Administration and against the Soviet Union and its clients in the Third World. In the end, Haig was defeated in the intramural struggle and frustrated in the global one. He lost Reagan's confidence and support, and he left his successor, George Shultz, with a daunting agenda of unfinished business. In the eyes of his critics, Haig's defeat was self-inflicted: the soldier in him got the better of the statesman; he did not know when to stop fighting and seek conciliation; he was too obsessed with his enemies, however real...