Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...childish pronouncements on the draft [June 3] of those who would enjoy the harvest without the labor are empty and redundant. Joe College '66 is a sad, disgusting example for my children to have to follow. He tempts me to resign to avoid contributing to the security in which he is free to demur and complain...
...confrontation between South Viet Nam's militant Buddhists and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky careened wildly onward last week. The immolation epidemic of the week before had burned itself out, but the Buddhists had turned to new weapons in their battle to force Ky to resign...
That was well and good, but just as the Americans were beginning to breathe more easily, Tarn Chau went back on the offensive. He issued an ultimatum giving Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu 48 hours to resign, warned that if they did not meet his deadline all Buddhist monks would submit to "voluntary imprisonment...
...dialogue in the first place. Social Democratic Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner persuaded Brandt, who was cool to the idea at first, to accept. Since then, Brandt has made the cause his own. He conducted the negotiations, indeed decided to lead the debate himself, dramatically announcing that he would even resign his office as mayor and go simply in his nongovernmental capacity as leader of his party if protocol demanded...
...acted as Franco's ambassador to Argentina, France and the U.S. To improve "domestic relations"-meaning contacts with the Franco government-Don Juan chose Florentine Pérez Embid, a prominent Madrid University historian and member of the influential Opus Dei movement. Though the new secretariat would resign if Don Juan assumes the monarchy, in the meantime it can promote in Spain what Don Juan cannot do from exile: the image of a benevolent, progressive constitutional monarch as the best alternative to the present regime...