Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strongest Weapon. In keeping with that new-found restraint, Nixon urged a moratorium on criticism of U.S. foreign policy by all candidates during the period of negotiation before talks on a Viet Nam settlement. Chiding Eugene McCarthy for his demands that Dean Rusk resign, Nixon added: "The one man who can do anything about peace is Lyndon Johnson, and I'm not going to do anything to undercut him." Yet Nixon made it clear that division within the Democratic Party is one of his strongest weapons. Flying on to Michigan, where he conferred with Governor George Romney (but came...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, will resign his chairmanship of the Social Studies Department next year in order to resume a full teaching load...
...caught in the middle of the crossfire between press and McCarthy staff. A former Associated Press reporter, he often reddened at the errors of local McCarthy workers. "NTTL"--Never Trust The Locals--Hersh sometimes muttered during the campaign. Such organizational problems may have eased Hersh's decision to resign a week before the primary, when he felt that McCarthy was not campaigning hard enough in the Milwaukee ghetto...
...fraternities, several faculty members, and several dorms have offered space to members of Phi Delta Theta who wish to resign from the fraternity...
Wine at His Feet. The whirlwind liberalization continued to buffet the country, bringing joy to most people but guilt and grief to others. Defense Minister Bohumir Lomský was among many who were forced to resign in disgrace; he denied having had a role in an attempted coup to prevent Dubček's takeover last January, but admitted that others had "misused" units of the army for that purpose. Josef Břešγtanský, 42, deputy president of the Czechoslovak Supreme Court and the man in charge of reviewing the trials of the Stalinist purge...