Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boos. In the end, Callaway may be judged guilty only of a series of indiscretions that might have stirred relatively little notice in bygone eras. But a President who came to office after scandals forced his predecessor to resign-and who has so far come through to voters as a man of honesty and decency-cannot afford to wait for the final verdict on Bo's boo-boos...
...Beirut military region. In cool, measured tones, he proclaimed a state of emergency and declared that he had just taken control of the country as Military Governor. Giving no hint as to his source of support, Ahdab called on President Suleiman Franjieh and Premier Rashid Karami to resign within 24 hours, "for the sake of national unity." Ahdab insisted that he had "no desire to rule" and called upon Parliament to select a new President within seven days...
...when two-thirds of the 99-member Parliament agreed to ask him to step down. Still, Franjieh defiantly refused, although widespread anarchy and dangerously rising tensions increased military and political pressures on him to vacate the presidency. Meanwhile, nothing had been heard from Karami, who, ironically, had threatened to resign just before Ahdab had demanded his resignation...
...sided Accounts. The roundup was apparently a response to a recent public demand by twelve dissidents-including five religious leaders-that President Park resign. Meeting at Seoul's Myongdong Cathedral on March 1-the 57th anniversary of a Korean uprising against Japanese colonial rule-the group issued a Declaration for Saving Korea. It labeled the country "a one-man dictatorship that tramples on human rights," and recommended: "There is no other way for the Park regime but to accept responsibility by stepping down." The government's official answer was that the declaration was part of a plot...
Sekler also announced he will resign in June as director of Carpenter Center...