Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade with Turkey. Meanwhile, the campaign against liberals continued in Prague. Josef Smrkovsky, the former president of the National Assembly who was Dubček's closest ally, was stripped of membership in the federal legislature, his last state function. Ten other liberals were also forced to resign, thus virtually completing the purge of deputies who remained loyal to Dubček. But the struggle is far from over. Some Czechoslovaks expect a bitter battle over economic issues next month, when the party's 135-man Central Committee, which is composed of 35% conservative extremists, holds its scheduled...
...Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis of Greece interrupted the proceedings. Waving his hand in the air, he told Italy's Aldo Moro, chairman of the Council of Europe meeting in Paris: "I have something further to say." With that, the small, sharp-featured Pipinelis, 70, announced that Greece would resign immediately from one of Europe's most prestigious political forums. He did not have to explain why. Everyone in the room knew that the first order of business after lunch would almost certainly be to suspend Greece from the Council for denying basic democratic rights to its citizens without...
...leaders would not say whether the members planned to resign from the University, or how long the strike would last. "It is an open-ended thing," said one OBU member...
...field. Such a suggestion will obviously receive no documentation from Harvard officials, but is a reasonable conjecture nevertheless. There are indications that Yovicsin has agreed to quit Suffolk Downs before starting work there, so Harvard will not have the chance to kiss him goodbye because of a refusal to resign from the new post...
Henry is the first black Faculty member to say publicly that he would resign if the University suspends the students. The other black Faculty members who were questioned would not comment...