Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visits to the countryside were scrubbed for security reasons, but were unnecessary anyway in the absence of any opposition. Saigon, meanwhile, hummed with exotic speculation about the shape of things to come. One opposition daily even wryly suggested that Mme. Thieu had threatened suicide if her husband did not resign. The newspaper was promptly seized...
...very clear. As President I cannot do otherwise but abide by the Constitution and the law. And I have mentioned very clearly that unfortunately the ticket which remains is mine. (Laughter.) Now Vice President Ky suggests that I resign. Why? I have no reason for that. I cannot abandon the country. I would be accused by the people and the historians. To the army I also said very clearly, if the whole army comes here to say "You betray your country, you go against the people," you can have a very peaceful coup d'état. (Laughter.) If [however...
Though Amri insisted he was in Lebanon for "rest and medical treatment," President Iryani, whose own powers are greatly strengthened by the general's removal, promptly announced Amri's resignation as Premier and commander in chief. In the past, the wily strongman's usual tactic when opposed on one issue or another was to resign, repair to Beirut or Cairo for a few weeks, and await recall on his own terms. This time it looks doubtful that Amri will ever be invited back...
...reporters, and discussed his reaction to the political trauma of the past fortnight. ∙ The reporters asked many of the right questions, and felt that they received almost none of the right answers. Had he offered Minh and Ky millions of dollars to run? Had he urged Thieu to resign, as Ky suggested? Would he himself soon be retiring...
...made his way to Saigon's television studios to defend before a fretful nation his decision to proceed with the presidential election next month. The election will be unusual even by Vietnamese standards: only Thieu's name will be on the ballot. Dismissing any notion of resigning to assure a fair race among equal contestants as "the act of a deserter," Thieu proposed to make, the election a referendum on his popularity. The terms: "I would like to use this election to ask the people whether they still have confidence in me and my policies. If they...