Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as the official mourning period for slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended, his apparent successor moved quickly to keep the peace process on track. Early this morning, Israeli troops lowered the Israeli flag over their military headquarters, got into 14 military vehicles and drove out of the West Bank town of Jenin. As they left, Palestinian police, followed by a jubilant crowd of Arabs, entered the building and raised the Palestinian flag. Jenin becomes the first town to gain autonomy under the agreement signed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon...
...anyone dies or anything scandalous happens before the next election, we could count their ballots and see who the successor should be. That's why we keep them in storage in the election safe," Samp said...
...Yeltsin were to die, the presidency would pass to Victor Chernomyrdin, Russia's Prime Minister, who more than anyone appears to be Yeltsin's chosen successor. Chernomyrdin would be required to call a presidential election within three months. Matters would be less clear if Yeltsin remained alive but incapacitated. In this case also, Chernomyrdin would become acting President, but the Russian constitution does not spell out clearly when a President may be judged too ill to perform his job. A power struggle among ambitious rivals would almost surely ensue, with the fragile constitution itself only one of the potential casualties...
...Mondrian retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, curated by an international panel led by the art historian Angelica Zander Rudenstine, is quite simply one of the best shows MOMA has ever held--a worthy successor to its surveys of the two other 20th century titans, Picasso and Matisse. In its New York form, the exhibition includes paintings that, owing to their fragility, couldn't be lent to earlier venues in Washington and Holland--Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43, and Victory Boogie Woogie, left unfinished at his death...
...became popular in the last three years at a time when the Business School was in a holding pattern because [former Dean John H. McArthur] was waiting for his successor to be named," Clark said. "John didn't want to commit for the future without knowing who would be here...