Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their deep misgivings over the feud's effect on military unity. They decided to invite the two men to talk things over. In a heated and often an gry confrontation that ran on for nearly three days, the commanders urged Ky and Thieu to compose their differences or resign from office in favor of a caretaker government. Both refused...
Last week Rockefeller even encouraged New York Republican State Chairman Carl Spad to resign his job and go to work for Romney. An astute political pro, Spad, 50, has been in Rockefeller's inner circle for nine years, was his chief patronage dispenser and also labored hard on behalf of the New Yorker's presidential bids in 1960 and 1964. In the Romney camp, Spad will probably work under Leonard Hall, chairman of the Washington-based Romney for President Committee...
...Classifying his foes under the Communist label of "imperialistic stooges," he also called President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia and the Shah of Iran "only the tools of America." He accused members of the federal government of Aden of being "traitors and agents" and called upon them to resign and do penance. Traveling further afield, he claimed that West Germany, which he does not recognize, is "subjected to America." Then he sat down with the visiting Foreign Minister of Communist East Germany, Otto Winzer, to discuss opening diplomatic relations with that country...
...will keep all official perquisites, but must inevitably lose most of his influence and prestige, amassed, ironically, through his career as an investigator of others' transgressions. There is some doubt that he will be renominated in 1970, let alone reelected. Last week six Connecticut newspapers suggested that he resign...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick E. Morgan, 73, Eisenhower's deputy chief of staff during World War IIs Normandy invasion, who served briefly as administrator of the U.N.'s relief agency, UNRRA, in postwar Germany, but was forced to resign when he outraged his boss, Fiorello La Guardia, by bluntly charging that Soviet spies were using UNRRA as a cover; of a stroke; in Northwood, England...