Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Parker, several of the trustees who sided most strongly with her in the dispute have either resigned or have threatened to resign...
Teng was forced to resign his party posts, and for nearly seven years he was in effect a nonperson. Some Sinologists believe that Teng spent his years of obscurity reading the works of Mao, Marx and Lenin and visiting communes and factories "in order to gain empathy for workers and peasants." He was, however, spared hard physical labor out of consideration for his age. In April 1973, he suddenly reappeared at a banquet in Peking and was led to his seat by Mao's niece Wang Hai-jung, now a Vice Foreign Minister. By the following January, Teng had been...
...thought this was supposed to be my dance." Italian politics being what it is, the caricature contained more truth than humor. Making good on a long-hinted threat, the Socialist Party last week withdrew its parliamentary support for Moro's fragile coalition government, thereby forcing the Cabinet to resign. With Italy still deep in its worst postwar recession, the country faced the grim prospects of 1) living with another ineffectual (even minority) coalition government, or 2) elections that could give the well-organized Communist Party a share of power...
...detractors. He made more enemies than friends at the U.N. as he branded Uganda President Idi Amin a "racist murderer" and blamed other African governments for supporting him. Moynihan was equally vehement when he denounced the resolution equating Zionism with racism as "infamous." Soon after he threatened to resign because he did not think he was getting proper support from the State Department. Ford, who could scarcely afford more turmoil in his Administration, had to support Moynihan. Moreover, Moynihan's outspokenness won him a large following in the U.S. and a possible base for whatever political ambitions he may entertain...
After Carey lowered the boom on him, Nadjari reacted with characteristic toughness. He refused to resign. Instead, he called a press conference and strongly suggested that Carey was trying to protect high-level Democratic cronies. These Democrats, Nadjari said, were the targets of a nearly completed probe into "the hard core" of corruption in the upper reaches of the justice system. Indictments in the case, he added, could be delivered this month. Said he: "The closer I get to the hard core-and I tell you that I am close, closer than I have ever been-the greater the abuse...