Word: successors
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When Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping die, Communism's last major scions will be gone. No successor in either Cuba or China has the same personal sway these two rulers have wielded. In China, by far the more important of the two nations, Communism appears to have devolved into a heavily regulated, semi-legal form of capitalism. Only North Korea, whose development program for nuclear weapons makes the news every week, can take the role of menacing outpost of Communism. Still, more nations than the United States would want to have a hand in the quelling of a belligerent nuclear...
...made out a personal loan of roughly $25,000 to Clinton and McDougal to help pay for Whitewater acreage. Denton recalls that within two years the Clinton debt was repaid with proceeds from an unrelated loan made by Union to both McDougal and Jim Guy Tucker, the President's successor as Governor of Arkansas. "It was strange and unusual because McDougal's deals with Tucker and Clinton were supposedly independent of each other," says Denton...
Returning Hero: Bobby Inman, the reluctant successor...
...their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy to his successor. "I don't see any reason at all why anyone should have a handgun," he says...
...will continue as GSAS administrative dean and as acting dean of admissions and financial aid for the GSAS until a successor has been found for Drusilla Blackman, who resigned last summer from her admissions post...