Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since he became Malta's Prime Minister last June, scrappy, erratic Socialist Dom Mintoff has made a specialty of issuing nonnegotiable demands. In one of his first official acts, for example, he told the British Governor General to resign and to clear out of the tiny Commonwealth island nation within four days. Last week "Deadline Dom," as he has become known in some corners of Malta's diplomatic community, came up with what could be his ultimate ultimatum. Unless Britain agreed to come across with an immediate $11 million increase in the rent that it pays...
...noted for a candor that sometimes put him in opposition to the Nixon Administration. Initially, for example, he argued against the bailout of ailing Lockheed Aircraft with Government funds. In recent months, Packard has privately expressed irritation at taking orders from White House aides. But he did not resign out of any hard feelings. He exchanged letters of lavish praise with the President. He plans to stay for a while in Washington to advise Laird, who is looking for a replacement for him. Two replacements, in fact. Considering the burden of the job, the White House is asking Congress...
American in a world persuaded that no U.S. citizen could approach international relations with impartiality. Yet when he died last week at 67, six months after his health had forced him to resign as the United Nations Under Secretary-General, Bunche had achieved a unique status: a black without color and an American who belonged to all the nations...
...will resign his post at Harvard sometime before he is sworn in as Secretary of Education after the first of the year...
...When I would resign has been an open topic for the past year," Fox said yesterday. "It was just a question of when I would not be able to handle both of my jobs...