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Dates: during 1990-1999
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King Hussein's announcement that he has lymphoma has Jordanians speculating about the future. Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan, 51, has been the designated heir for 33 years and would be expected to succeed unchallenged, but naming his successor is likely to spark friction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Succession Disputes Seem Possible in Jordan | 8/2/1998 | See Source »

...head of the FSB (successor to the KGB) will be Vladimir Putin, a former spy in Germany who now serves in Yeltsin's presidential administration. "At 45, Putin is much closer in thinking and age to the new 30-something men who now rule Russia," says Meier. "It reveals the desire of the new generation in power to push the grayhairs from the controls of the security forces" -- and make sure the troops remain loyal and battle-ready for the tough times ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin Braces for Trouble at Home | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...philistines. In short, it was intelligent. But by the time Shawn stepped down in 1987, two years after the magazine was purchased by media billionaire S.I. Newhouse, a good many of its pages were also subdued to the point of immobile. It was an atmosphere that Shawn's successor, Robert Gottlieb, did not do much to relieve. When Newhouse moved Tina Brown into the editor's job in 1992, it was for the plain purpose of making noise in the sanctuary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Glory? | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...recent flood of video e-mail products is partly due to the proliferation of faster PCs and modems. Mostly, though, it's a bid to find the successor to plain old e-mail, which remains the Net's most popular activity. Among online users surveyed by Forrester Research, 83% said they typically use e-mail; only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Got V-Mail! | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...secret playoff is on for a successor to Ryutaro Hashimoto as the next Japanese prime minister. Whoever he is -- and there is a short list of front-runners, none of whom have Hashimoto's dynamic reputation -- he'll come from the ranks of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. And that's part of Japan's conundrum. Traditionally, there has been no serious alternative to the LDP. The Japanese public has been willing to elect members of rival parties into the weak Upper House as a form of protest, as they did on Sunday, but they're still reluctant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who'll Emerge From Tokyo's Smoky Back Rooms? | 7/14/1998 | See Source »

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