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Zimbabwe's Mugabe Offers Feisty Response to ‘Successor’ Question

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“Do you want me to punch you to the floor to realize I am still there?” The speaker was not a boxer trash-talking before a fight. It was Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is 92 and known for pugnacious comments. This one, to an interviewer from state TV, was in response to a question about retirement plans and who would succeed him. “Why ‘successor’ when I am still there?” Mugabe said in the interview aired Thursday night. “Why do you want a successor?” Mugabe,...

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