Word: quit
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...rash in foreign affairs; as Secretary, Kissinger would be in a better position to block it. He also was contemptuous of William Rogers, who then held the job. He considered Rogers weak and inept and actually went out of his way to humiliate the Secretary. Kissinger finally threatened to quit if he could not have Rogers' post; Nixon yielded. But when Nixon sent Haig to tell Rogers he must step down, the deeply hurt Secretary replied: "Tell the President to f___ himself." He later cooled off and dutifully resigned...
Haig, Buzhardt and St. Clair, now united in the inescapable conclusion that Nixon must quit, set in motion a delicate maneuver to get the President to reach the decision on his own. Certain that he would rebel if pressured to resign, they persuaded him that the tape's contents must be made public. They knew there would be a tremendous outcry when Americans realized that Nixon had been lying to them all along. The strategy, of course, worked. The reaction was swift and overwhelmingly angry-and it told Richard Nixon what his advisers could not, dared not tell...
Jewish Settlers. Regardless of the U.N. resolution and its fate, West Bankers are likely to continue their protests; after nearly nine years they are tired of Israeli occupation and alarmed over the encroachment of Jewish settlers. Eight West Bank mayors have quit in protest and Israeli-sponsored elections scheduled to be held in 25 communities on April 12 may be canceled. Even some Israelis are becoming critical of Jerusalem's sometimes insensitive administration of the West Bank communities. Writing in the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot, Zvi Al Peleg, former occupation commander of Nablus and the Gaza Strip, noted...
...herself, governing through a small clique of inept and often corrupt advisers. Among them was Astrologer-Mystic José López Rega, a kind of Pampas Rasputin whose power antagonized the military and whose conservative economic ideas upset labor. After popular demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many Argentines felt-and hoped-that...
...bottom," as the British call it, to put renegades in their place. "Sunny Jim" is also the only politician among the eggheads in the party's highest councils whose background reflects that of most Labor voters. The son of a Royal Navy chief petty officer, Callaghan quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother. He entered politics through union elections, eventually rose through Labor's ranks to hold all three of the major Cabinet posts: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Office Secretary and, since 1974, Foreign Secretary, where he renegotiated Britain's Common Market membership with...