Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RULE ONE: YOU DO NOT RESIGN...
...resign, you don't carry your case to the public," says Gelb. "Lower level people in Washington see themselves as understudies. Each is trying to learn the part he hopes to play next, even though he knows that the odds are very much against his getting that future role. It is not really necessary to quit, go public and release classified documents to make your case. Would George Ball have needed to do that? No. His departure in itself would have had enormous impact. If you read his words literally, he felt very strongly. But he didn't take...
That is all too harsh a judgment of Edward Gierek, 58, the pragmatic technocrat who took over as party leader after Wladyslaw Gomulka, 66, was forced to resign because of last December's Baltic coast riots. In fact, Gierek has done many things that Gomulka in recent years would not have dared. Last week he made important moves in his overall strategy to ease economic and religious tensions in Poland, and to shunt aside hard-line leaders who also happen to be his rivals for power. Specifically, Gierek: - Introduced a new Five-Year Plan to the party...
...action, Kelly became the second U.S. bishop in recent years to resign in distress. The first was Bishop James P. Shannon (TIME cover, Feb. 23, 1970), auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, who resigned because he could not accept Pope Paul's teaching on contraception and because, as an articulate progressive, he had been largely isolated by powerful conservatives in the hierarchy...
...ascension is less a passing of the torch than a changing of the guard and renovation of the guard-house. Pusey is the last of the four top administrators responsible for the April 1969 student strike to resign. Gone already are Fred L. Glimp '50, former dean of the College; Robert B. Watson '34, former dean of Students and now director of Athletics; and Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty...