Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Piedmont Driving Club, which bars membership to blacks and Jews (the other appointees: Atlanta Banker Bert Lance, Carter's proposed budget director, and Houston Businessman Charles Duncan Jr., a former Atlanta resident who was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense). Bell and Lance have promised to resign, but at week's end Duncan had not yet decided what...
...much outrage. Since 1867, Atlanta's Jews have had their own Standard Club, which admitted its first gentile member only last September. In fact, Atlanta's Big Mules could take some comfort from the fact that one of Standard's members, Lawyer Robert Lipshutz, plans to resign his membership as soon as Carter names him White House counsel...
Scares, who had hinted he might resign if his party was heavily out polled, attributed the Socialists' victory to fear of further instability. Said he: "The people consider that a defeat of the Social ists would endanger the political and economic stability of the country." Yet the pattern of the voting showed that the country is politically divided and dangerously polarized. The conservative Catholic north and the islands of Madeira and the Azores went overwhelmingly to the Social Democrats and the C.D.S., while the agricultural Alentejo region in the south is under the control of the Communists. The Socialists...
...first such maneuver may be the resignation of Premier Miki. Soon after the election, one Miki aide asked rhetorically, "Why do we admire cherry blossoms so much? Because they fall so quickly. When they're still beautiful, still pure, the aesthetic is right. That's why Miki will resign." Miki himself told an associate, "The Japanese sense of grace will not permit me to stay." With that, he withdrew for the weekend to his mountain villa 80 miles west of Tokyo to put the final touches on what is expected to be an unusual combination: an offer...
...Secretary of State is disappointing for a number of reasons. As a Defense Department official during the Johnson administration, Vance participated in high-level policy-making in the period when the United States was maximizing its involvement in Vietnam. Vance did not protest the war, he did not resign his post, and indeed by representing the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, he served as an active instrument of the Johnson war policy. These factors alone should disqualify him from holding the highest foreign policy office in the nation...