11.   Jackson County Circuit Judge Jack Gant, who was on the presidential succession committee, said Pacheco made a very good impression when he was interviewed earlier.

12.   Missouri Commissioner of Higher Education Kala Stroup, who was on the presidential succession committee, said Pacheco enjoys a strong national reputation in higher education circles.

13.   Months of net foreign capital inflows and expectations of a stable investment climate ground to a halt in mid-February as concern about the presidential succession arose.

14.   No one knows how the presidential succession will bear on her race, or hers on it.

15.   Ominously, on both occasions the army played a decisive role in shaping the presidential succession.

16.   Others speculated that the delay might have been prompted not by difficulty with the presidential succession, but by competition for other top government posts.

17.   Ruth Caridad Silva, a political scientist and authority on presidential succession and legislative apportionment, died Saturday at Centre Community Hospital in State College, Pa.

18.   Suffused in a GOP glow, Gingrich was asked if he had higher ambitions than being third in line, as speaker, in the presidential succession.

19.   That has added to fears of new violence if the next presidential succession does not go smoothly.

20.   That makes him third in presidential succession behind the vice president and House speaker.