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Hill hopes that the administration will help in the reorganizational process, but he further asserts that the council's successor should be essentially student...
RESIGNED. WILLIAM BRATTON, 48, New York City police commissioner; in Manhattan. Bratton is credited by many for a remarkable 27% drop in crime. But Gotham gossip long suggested that his boss, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, resented the commissioner's media profile (including a TIME cover) and independent nature. Bratton's successor, fire commissioner Howard Safir, is a Giuliani loyalist...
...Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin; in Tel Aviv. The Jewish ultra-rightist brought new depths of meaning to the word unrepentant, grinning and yawning through a trial in which he freely admitted he shot Rabin to derail peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Amir's fellow extremists are taunting Rabin's successor, Shimon Peres, by chanting Amir's name...
Daniels calls me "a living historian who denies, albeit implicitly, that Slavery and its successor regime were not fully-fledged systems established and perpetuated by the white majority to steal the labor of African-Americans and deny them the opportunity to compete equally in society." In fact, I called slavery "repugnant," and I described the "successor regime" as "broadly institutionalized American racism...
...structure was copied from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Following his flight from the mainland, Chiang's martial-law regime banned opposition parties. Dissidents were jailed or went into exile, and newspapers and the broadcast media were tightly controlled. But Chiang's son and successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, opened the political system, lifting martial law in 1987. Lee succeeded him in 1988 and continued the reforms, holding the first parliamentary elections in 1992. Finally, with the direct presidential election, the move to democracy was complete...