Word: resignations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story revolves around the family, the drabness of their bourgeois lives, their struggles to make a respectable living, whether as doctor, hairdresser, or clerk. But it is essentially a love story. It celebrates the ever-deepening love of two old people, who have shared sorrow and happiness, and now resign themselves to old age and death, in a manner so dignified that it bespeaks a stoic philosophy...
...tough and resourceful general whom Richard Nixon once called "one of the four or five greatest politicians in the world." Yet in his duel with the Administration, Thieu had few real options. Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months. Thieu would claim to have met the Communist demand for his resignation-and then run for reelection. The catch is that if Thieu were to let go of the levers of power...
Thieu will resign, and indeed whether he will step down as part of the initial solution. All indications are that what is being fashioned will be a separation of the military and political solutions at a decent interval. This can mean a ceasefire, bombing halt and return of prisoners before a political settlement is made. But there will have to be some agreed-upon conditions and procedures for the sharing of political power through a government of national union or a national commission that will include the Communists. In his talks with President Thieu, General Haig is reported to have...
Despite a series of blunders that would have finished off a less resilient politician, Barzel began an irreversible march to the top. In 1963, when an aging Konrad Adenauer finally decided to resign as Chancellor and toyed with the idea of taking the ceremonial post of federal President, Barzel prematurely backed Der Alte for the job before the old man had made up his mind (Adenauer never took the presidency). At the same time, Barzel pushed Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor, although Adenauer, who remained party chairman, did not want Erhard to succeed him. In his greatest miscalculation, Barzel backed himself...
...outside the EEC Norway will find new tariff barriers for its exports of fish products, paper and metal alloys. In a belated attempt to curb anti-EEC momentum, Socialist Premier Trygve Bratelli, 62, who had risked his reputation and millions of government kroner on pro-EEC propaganda, threatened to resign if the EEC was spurned...