Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the day he took office 17 months ago as the self-proclaimed "vicar" of American foreign policy. He had been worn down by incessant friction with colleagues-much of it self-created-in the unending battle for the President's ear, and he had said he would quit so many times that the threat of resignation had become a Washington joke. This time, however, Reagan was also worn down by the friction and was fully pre pared to let Haig go. Yet, until the very moment that an obviously strained and tense Reagan stepped before the TV cameras...
...unease about Haig's de parture centered on the fact that the most knowledgeable and experienced foreign policy hand in an Administration not noted for diplomatic expertise had quit at a moment when the U.S. was trying to cope with a host of challenging global troubles. In the Middle East, the U.S. is desperately attempting to patch together some kind of settlement in Lebanon, for fear that the Israeli invasion of the country might set the whole region aflame-or, at minimum, irretrievably damage American interests in the Arab world. In Europe, the anger of American allies...
...P.L.O. to surrender its arms before the Israelis, contrary to pledges they had made from the start, took matters into their own hands and attacked Beirut. Said another Washington official: "They tell us that having gone this far, having lost so many lives, they are not going to quit without victory one way or the other...
DIED. Granville Hicks, 80, literary critic; in Kendall Park, N. J. A member of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1939, Hicks created an intellectual storm with his Marxist critiques of American and British writing. He quit the party in disgust over the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and in his later years wrote mostly apolitical criticism...
MARRIED. William Agee, 44, chairman of Bendix Corp.; and Mary Cunningham, 30, vice president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons and former vice president of Bendix, who quit that post after rumors credited her promotion to a romance with Agee; both for the second time; in San Francisco. Agee recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and Cunningham won an annulment of her first marriage...