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Although the city voted in a conservative mayor in December 1990, the successor party to the Communists did exceptionally well in the old eastern boroughs, still a solid left-wing stronghold.
But give the Times credit for putting forward its own clear suggestion: With Yeltsin's health problems much in evidence of late, Russians were increasingly viewing Chernomyrdin as Yeltsin's imminent successor, and "nothing infuriates Yeltsin more than the suggestion that he has lost any of his political authority."
That might not be the case if Greenspan's successor were either an inflation dove like William Greider or a perma-bear like Jim Grant.
Senior statesmen of Henry's own Lancastrian party judged him an unworthy successor to their previous standard-bearer, the legendary Henry V, identified in the popular mind with the romance of chivalry and the tragedy of an early death.
The pessimistic spin, from Lyons' possible successor, the Rev.