Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decried as "savage tactics." Some state committeemen were warned that unless they voted for Mrs. Harris, they could forget about A.F.L.-C.I.O. money for next year's congressional campaigns. The most powerful persuader, though, was Old Pro O'Brien. Rumors floated about that O'Brien would resign if Mrs. Harris was not elected. He personally swung at least ten votes only hours before the election...
...bureau by creating a new post a notch above him. On Aug. 31, Hoover summoned Sullivan to his office and heatedly berated him for 2½ hours. He implied that Sullivan was insolent and disloyal and made it clear that he wanted him to resign...
...runs Forrester's analysis of conventional programs and their benefits. Must we resign ourselves to pessimism Forrester thinks not. As was clear from the examination of the previous four public programs, conventional approaches to solving urban problems are defeated by massive in-migration of the Underemployed. Forrester believes that if this in-migration can be limited, the prospects for increasing the upward mobility--and therefore the quality of life--of the Underemployed in the city can be greatly enhanced...
...people of both East and West Pakistan responded to the increasingly totalitarian nature of their government and the increasing income disparities in their country with large-scale urban rioting in 1968-69 that forced President Ayub Khan to resign. A token reshuffling of generals produced a new strongman, Yahya Khan, who continued the same repressive civil and economic policies. As the elite in West Pakistan consolidated its control, East Pakistan increasingly approximated a colony of the West, supplying raw materials to Western industry and serving as a market for the finished products. Political domination of the East by the Western...
Smith may back out of any agreement with Britain, as he did in 1966 and again in 1968. He is vulnerable to criticism from ultraconservatives in his Rhodesian Front party; a dozen of them have already threatened to resign if he compromises the power of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites over 5 million Africans. It also remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate vote last week to lift the embargo on Rhodesian chrome might strengthen the hand of Rhodesia's hardliners...