Word: successors
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...body of exiled dictator Ferdinand Marcos finally returned to the Philippines for burial, four years after he died and seven years after he was overthrown in a popular revolt backed by the military. The government of Corazon Aquino had resisted a Marcos return, but her successor, President Fidel Ramos, a cousin of the dictator, judged that enough time had passed. Only 7,000 people from Marcos' home province greeted the body on its return; his widow Imelda had predicted 1 million...
...candidates have been pared down to a short list, but four months after Restic announced his upcoming retirement to the football team at its annual spring practice in May, no obvious successor has emerged...
...candidates have been pared down to a short list, but four months after Restic announced his upcoming retirement to the football team at its annual spring practice in May, no obvious successor has emerged...
Costa, who once served as national editor forUnited Press International, now heads a project tolaunch a radio show for Harvard Magazine. He saidlast week that his move to the magazine wasinfluenced by a desire to return to hisjournalistic roots and to allow an incoming, andas yet unnamed permanent successor to Shattuck,the opportunity to restructure the news office...
Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro will oust Humberto Ortega, the Sandinista army chief. The announcement drew a denunciation from Daniel Ortega, Humberto's brother, who was President of the Sandinista government that ran Nicaragua for more than a decade. "You are not the owner of Nicaragua," he told his successor. But Chamorro's action could help unfreeze $94 million...