Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Graham says she will not resign from the city council if elected to the State House, and will seek re-election to one more term on the council...
...piety, left-wing Thai students called for mass demonstrations. Bangkok was soon plastered with posters accusing Thanom of ordering the killing of 71 people, mostly students, during the 1973 revolution. After four days of dillydallying, the shaky government coalition led by Prime Minister Seni Pramoj, 71, decided to resign, as accusations of government indecisiveness continued to mount. But then, in a by-now characteristic move for Seni, the Prime Minister announced that he would stay on after all. The monkish former marshal continued to walk the streets, rice bowl in hand, asking for alms and keeping his political plans, whatever...
...husband Prince Bernhard, 65. When rumors from the Lockheed bribetaking scandals began to gather around Bernhard's royal head last February, the majority of the Dutch public preferred to consider their esteemed merchant prince innocent, at least until proved guilty. Last week, however, the prince was forced to resign from virtually all his public and official posts after a government commission severely chastized him for "extremely imprudent" dealings with Lockheed. The prince, who served as Inspector General of the Dutch armed forces, will keep his ermine, but he has lost his epaulets. The stunned nation has lost something more...
...hire more black workers, then by setting up a nationwide string of training centers that teach blacks skills ranging from upholstering to air-traffic control. In an uncompromising statement accepting the GM post, Sullivan insisted that he would not become an apologist for tokenism-indeed, that he would soon resign if blacks did not make large and measurable gains in working for and dealing with...
...steadfastly stuck to that tactic, and hubbub follows him like a swarm of hornets. When he left Massachusetts to head the Illinois department of child welfare, he soon alienated the state's social workers, put the child welfare system into a swivet, and was forced to resign. But Pennsylvania quickly hired...