The FSA military leader, General Abdul-Ilah al Bashir, who defected from the Syrian government side in 2012, said in an interview with the McClatchy news agency last week that the CIA had taken over direction of this new moderate force.
In 1963 Mankiewicz took over direction from Rouben Mamoulian of the ill-fated Cleopatra.
Her sons Wieland and Wolfgang successively took over direction of the festival and maintained the ban imposed on their mother.
Giovanni's son Giuseppe, known as Nuccio, was born in 1914 and took over direction of the company in 1934.
For Tamara Rojo, who took over direction of ENB in 2012, this new alliance is a masterstroke.
When the collaborationist Vichy government took over direction of the French lifestyle magazine Paris Soir, it announced in its pages a "summer of couture... and shopping".
He became deputy editor-in-chief and then succeeded as editor-in-chief when Val took over direction of the national radio station France Inter in 2009.
He then directed, for BBC television, A Question Of Attribution (1992), with James Fox as Sir Anthony Blunt in an encounter with the Queen (Prunella Scales), and the following year took over direction of Ian McEwan's The Innocent.
There she met and married Richard Wagner's son, Siegfried, and, when both he and his mother, Cosima, died in 1930, she took over direction of the Wagner festival, which was in progress at the time.
It was one of those moments in which the live nature of the event seemed most glorious; ditto when Munn took over direction duties from Reitman, and even when Lawrence complained she'd waited three hours for her part.
