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...When you're a pitcher," says Leonard, 35 next week, "your only chance at peace of mind is never to second-guess yourself. If someone cranks a home run off your fastball, you can't start thinking, 'I should have thrown the curve.' I felt an obligation not to quit, but it wasn't because of the money. Five years down the road, I didn't want to start second-guessing my whole career, wondering if I gave my best...
...campaign to mislead both Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the U.S. press, Secretary of State George Shultz declared, "Frankly, I don't have any problems with a little psychological warfare against Gaddafi." But if Shultz was not at all disturbed, his press spokesman was--so much so that he quit last week as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs...
...official connection to the Americans shot down over Nicaragua. White House officials, who have insisted they did not deliberately mislead the public about U.S. intentions toward Libya, were embarrassed and miffed by Kalb's dramatic gesture. One White House aide was particularly irritated that he had quit just before the summit in Reykjavík, "when he knew full well we hadn't misled anyone on purpose. His timing could have been worse, but not much." Said Kalb, making light of such concern: "I suspect that I will dissolve very quickly under the impact of the meeting in Reykjav?...
Kalb joins a handful of high Government officials who have stood on principle and quit rather than support the actions of the Administrations that hired them. Among the others: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who resigned in 1980 over the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, and Press Secretary Jerald terHorst, who quit in 1974 when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any Watergate wrongdoings. More often, Washington officeholders struggle for compromise between their integrity and the demands of their employers. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, grilled by an angry press corps earlier this month about his nuanced...
...being considered a stewardess's duty. During the 1960s, United Airlines, like its competitors, preferred young, single women as flight attendants, reasoning that they made the skies, well, friendlier. In 1970 a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 1,720 women who had been forced to quit United when they married. Last week U.S. District Judge James Moran approved a $37 million settlement in the marathon case...