Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giving Ground. With that, things began to fall apart. Once again Debré offered to resign, urged De Gaulle to replace him as Premier with Soustelle, one of the leaders of the 1958 uprising in Algiers. Soustelle himself, War Minister Pierre Guillaumat, Veterans Minister Raymond Triboulet and Communications Minister Bernard Cornut-Gentille. all submitted their resignations later...
...after taking power, and Lagaillarde daringly kidnaped two ministers of De Gaulle's Cabinet to prevent their appearing on the balcony with De Gaulle, a calculated humiliation of the ministers because they had served in the previous government. Elected to the National Assembly, Lagaillarde announced that he would resign his seat unless De Gaulle adopted the policy, and even the word, of integration for Algeria. He has not appeared in the Assembly since July 1 and says he is on "sick leave," but adds that it is the Assembly that is sick, not himself...
...JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE FLABBERGASTED!" snorted Asahi. "Kishi has not contributed to peace; he is a destroyer of peace." The Tokyo Yomiuri cried that "the people fear the treaty may bring them into a war." Sankei reported that "the feeling in Kishi's own party is that he will resign...
Those who hold that politics in Laos is already complicated enough had to resign themselves to a new surprise last week. To the world at large, it seemed that courtly Kou Abhay, 67, was the new Premier of the kingdom of Laos. But the man who was really running things was Kou's younger brother...
...Tammany plantation," expressed his faith in Jack's "integrity." But by last week Powell seemed less worried about what might happen to Jack. Said he: "I have absolute confidence that the New York Democratic Committee . . . will replace Mr. Jack with a Negro if he has to resign." And at week's end Tammany leaders, keenly aware of the importance of the Negro vote in New York City, let it be known that Powell was right...