Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only three months ago, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan seemed the hardest of Israel's hardliners. Angered by Egypt's movement of missiles along the Suez Canal after the Middle East ceasefire began, Dayan adopted a rocklike stance. He would resign, he said, if Israeli United Nations Ambassador Josef Tekoah were allowed to continue peace discussions with U.N. Mediator Gunnar V. Jarring while the missiles were still in the canal zone...
...staged the coup by quietly dispatching his intelligence agents to arrest President Noureddine Atassi and General Salah Jadid, who had been the strongman of Syria's extremist Baathist party. The more moderate Assad, who apparently moved to get Jadid before Jadid could get him, had been ordered to resign as Defense Minister by the Baathist congress. If he can keep control of the government, Assad might not only cooperate with the Cairo government, which the radical Baathists dislike, but might also amend Syria's adamant stance against peace with Israel...
...Cushing never sought the role that he retained for 26 years. From the beginning, he wanted to be a missionary. In 1962, he tried to resign in order to finish his career in the missions of Latin America. Instead, he remained a founder-and funder-of mission work, even establishing his own Society of St. James the Apostle for work in Latin America. His ability to raise money for the church at home and abroad was prodigious-a total of more than $100 million in 26 years. Just before Christmas in 1961, he raised $2,900,000 in cash...
THERE IS something magical about the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the way it seems to rise, Phoenix-like, out of its own ashes. The first chairs may graduate, the woodwinds resign, the bloodless old men on the Faculty Council hold back academic credit, but the HRO goes on, always attempting more ambitious projects...
...will resign at a time I think appropriate unless certain conditions-such as the opening of CRR meetings, if requested, and the changing of responsibilities of the CRR-are met," Roy Mendelssohn '71 said yesterday...