Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeding process of Hoover's longtime cronies in the bureau continues. Last week Joseph J. Casper, 53, assistant director in charge of training and a 31-year veteran, announced his early retirement; he is the fourth man to resign from the top FBI ranks since Hoover's death. Gray has also purposefully made himself visible and accessible, opening the FBI'S doors to the press and patching up relations with those law enforcement officials with whom the aging Hoover had developed feuds...
Pope Paul VI, who has strongly urged all Roman Catholic bishops to retire at 75, turns 75 himself in September. In April, when Italian newspapers were speculating that Paul might be the first Pope in modern history to resign the Pontiff gave a talk to some nuns in which he was quoted as saying "I do not want to give up the papacy." Apparently it was felt that so bald an avowal gave too much recognition to the possibility of retirement. The Vatican has just released a tape of the wistful words Paul really uttered: "It would be beautiful...
...Government still strongly backs Thieu. For one thing, in the midst of the current North Vietnamese offensive, he seems to represent the only viable focus of political stability in South Viet Nam. For another, his ouster-or his resignation-would be a considerable embarrassment to the Nixon Administration. Nonetheless, Nixon's most recent "two-point proposal" to Hanoi -to end all military activity in Indochina within four months if North Viet Nam accepts a cease-fire and releases the American prisoners of war-did not include a declaration of support for the present South Vietnamese government. As part...
...integrity. Although he withdrew from last year's presidential election charging that the U.S. had allowed it to be rigged in Thieu's favor, Minh may now be more willing to challenge Thieu's rule. Recently, he has been circulating a petition demanding that the President resign because of the failure of his leadership...
Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's 84-year-old President, seemed aghast when it was first proposed to him that Vice President C.K. Yen, 66, resign his added post of Premier and that the generalissimo name his own son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 62, to fill the vacancy. Would that not, the Gimo demanded, be unseemly? Would it not seem to be the beginning of a dynasty...