Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line should he show any of the leftist economic notions or excessive Catholic zeal that have toppled his governments in the past. A major clause in the coalition agreement negotiated by Fanfani provides that if any one of the minority parties withdraws its support, the government will resign whether it can muster a parliamentary majority or not. Thus though the atmosphere is, as Turin's La Stampa editorialized, "one of relief and even euphoria" because the Communists have been shoved back into isolation, the birth certificate of Fanfani's new government practically has the cause of its death...
...after the storm. With less sniping at the Administration than might have been expected in an election year, the Senate overwhelmingly ratified the U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty that Japanese leftists had tried to wreck. With the treaty ratified by both nations (see FOREIGN NEWS), Premier Nobusuke Kishi promised to resign, but the offer had been expected, and it set off no tremors...
...hour later, Japan's tough-minded Premier Nobusuke Kishi fatalistically paid the cost of his three-year fight for treaty revision. Meeting with the kingpins of his Liberal Democratic Party, Kishi announced: "I feel strongly the need for a fresh public atmosphere. Therefore, I have decided to resign." Kishi's one condition: the Liberal Democrats must first agree upon his successor...
...painfully clear. Courageously defying continuing riots, the strong-willed Premier kept the Diet in session until the vital moment at week's end when the revised Security Treaty at last achieved ratification. But from sources within his own squabbling party came word that Kishi would have to resign his premiership by autumn at the latest, might well be compelled to quit long before that (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi in a corridor of the Diet building and shoved him about, grabbing his coat and yanking his necktie. "You're responsible for all this!" they shouted. "It wouldn't happen if you'd resign...