Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Balaguer pointed out that if he quit, his legal successor is supposed to be the armed forces secretary. They had thought of that: Balaguer need only name Fiallo to that post, resign, and permit Fiallo to succeed him. Fiallo would then reappoint as armed forces chief the man who now occupies the job: General Rodriguez Echaverria, whose support of Balaguer gave him the muscle to oust the Trujillos. Balaguer, still backed by Rodriguez Echaverria, refused. "We have had enough!" exploded Fiallo, and out over Santo Domingo's Radio Tropical went a U.C.N. call for a general strike...
Last spring-with Second Church fragmented by gossip and bitterness-the Indianapolis Presbytery appointed an administrative commission to settle the dispute. After several attempts to bring the disputants together, the commission finally recommended that Dr. Hudson and ten members of the session resign. Dr. Hudson will leave Second Church at the end of this year, and the new elders will grapple with the still unsolved problem of how soothing their religion should...
...morning, 10 months after he had been elected president of Brazil by the largest plurality in that country's history, Janio Quadros resigned. "Quadros preferred to resign rather than see a gradual take-over by forces of the extreme left," John N. Plank, instructor in Government, said last night...
...hospital wards and criticizing the doctors. One such letter was passed along by a relative to the London Times, which published it Dec, 8, 1854 as part of its antigovernment campaign. Upon investigation, Elizabeth Wheeler's evidence was found to be inaccurate, and she was asked to resign...
...across the border of East Berlin, Communist aggression in Southeast Asia was newly alarming as a threat to the free world and a test of U.S. intentions. Russian nuclear tests had reached such a stage that the President had decided that the U.S. must resume atmospheric testing soon-and resign itself to the international outcry likely to follow. On the domestic front, the U.S. economy was not behaving as well as expected, and the future of Kennedy's New Frontier programs was in doubt; the President had just about given up hope that, in the election year...