Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.N.R.'s present 176-member strength by forming a united front against the Gaullists in certain districts. In the new Assembly, the opposition may therefore be able instantly to vote another motion of censure against De Gaulle or deny him funds. In that case, the President might resign and go home to Colombey as he did in 1946, or he might learn to compromise with Parliament. Theoretically he could also invoke Article 16 of the constitution, which enables the President to rule by decree, reducing the Assembly to impotence...
...drink from the cup of genocide" by submitting to "the tyranny of judicial oppression." For his part, he was willing to go to jail rather than accept Black's order. Furthermore, he advised "any official who is not prepared to suffer imprisonment for this righteous cause" to resign...
...committee on political unity, to the post of Minister of Information. This week, in a series of face-to-face interviews that the press immediately dubbed "sessions in the confessional," the entire Cabinet will be asked by De Gaulle either to approve his plans for the presidency or to resign...
Reuther: No, I'm not; I don't intend to resign, but we've got to come to an understanding...
...Jango") Goulart and his Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil from its unworkable parliamentary system to a strong presidency. "No more problems in Brasilia," crowed Goulart. There...