Word: resignations
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...Topic A around the Vatician these days is whether Pope Paul VI will resign when he reached 75 on Sept. 26. In 1966 Paul urged that bishops retire at 75. Shortly thereafter, he titillated papal observers with an odd pilgrimage to the castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit the papacy in 1294 after only five months in office. Within the past month, two Rome weeklies have primed the speculation. L'Espresso ran a poll of Curia opinions on whether Paul would step down (65% said no), and Il Mondo suggested waggishly that an unnamed cardinal was making...
Meanwhile, Saundra Graham is fed up with everyone: "All this politicking going on--if it doesn't stop, I'll resign my position. I want a City Manager and I want...
Early in the week, Ackermann proposed that President Nixon be billed for the recent mini-riot in Harvard Square. Her motion, not entirely a symbolic protest, was defeated 7-1. Outraged by this suggestion, two conservative councillors proposed a resolution calling on Ackermann to resign as Mayor...
Citing Ackermann's motion, Councillor Thomas Danehy introduced an order requesting that she resign her honorary office of Mayor. Danehy's order was defeated 5-4 as Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci voted "both...
Erim's resignation and Sunay's search for a successor who would continue the departed Prime Minister's "above party" approach to government produced a new political crisis for Turkey. For 50 years the country has been effectively run from behind the scenes by the military, which last year turned out Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel (for not cracking down hard enough on dissenters) and installed the then virtually unknown Erim, a former law professor. Officially, Turkey is a parliamentary democracy, but the four main parties are so fractiously divided that little in the way of creative change...