Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Huh's modest aim is to maintain a semblance of public order and to keep the discredited Assembly alive long enough to write a new constitution and dissolve for elections. So far Huh has gotten his way with the Assembly by threatening to resign if balked, a device that has worked chiefly because nobody else wants to assume his thankless job. But whether it will continue to work is anybody's guess. Says one Korean moderate nervously: "If the Assembly dissolves before the new constitution becomes law, there will be no authority left in this country...
...revised, ten-year security pact with the U.S. will automatically become law-provided that the Japanese Diet is still in session. Last week, as the capstone of their fanatical drive to kill the treaty, the 165 members of the Diet's Socialist minority solemnly vowed to resign en masse, a move that they hoped would simultaneously force immediate dissolution of the Diet and topple the government of Premier Nobusuke Kishi. To supplement these "parliamentary tactics," the Socialists screwed up to more frenzied pitch than ever their fortnight-old campaign of violent demonstrations against Kishi and the Eisenhower visit...
...year, and those of the 326-member federal chamber of deputies are $1,890,-000. How, he asked, could these expenses of Rio's 50-aldermen house run up to $2,900,000? Instead of answers, Lisboa left town, admitting that he might have to resign as a "strategic retreat.'' Reporters ran down House First Secretary Rubem Cardoso at Rio's Galeao airport, where he was about to board a plane for Europe. Cardoso protested stoutly. "I am honest," he said. "I am traveling on that $3,400 voted in the house. The others pocketed...
...Turkish army!" shouted the crowd. "Long live the Turkish nation!" answered the cadets. Next day 500 cadets, soon joined by about 100 captains, majors and lieutenant colonels, marched singing through Ankara. When the Defense Minister called on them to disperse, the cadets shouted: "Why don't you resign?" Next year they will be officers in the army Menderes relies on to keep order in Turkey...
Frantic politicking brought the Mizrahis back into the coalition government at the last minute and forestalled the possibility that Ben-Gurion and his Cabinet would have to resign. Foreign Minister Golda Meir persuaded Ben-Gurion not to make matters worse by engaging in a long scriptural argument on the Knesset floor with Agudat's white-bearded Rabbi Isaac Meir Levin. With several groups, including the Communists, abstaining, Biblical Scholar Ben-Gurion handily won his vote of confidence-61 to 6. But it was still a lesson in what every politician is supposed to know: that any utterance bearing...