Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moderates on the Revolutionary Council finally ousted General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the Castro-admiring military-security chief, and sent home the security police. Army Chief of Staff General Carlos Fabião, Navy Chief Armando Filgueiras Scares and Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho ("Red Rosa") were also forced to resign for supporting the radicals...
...spring of 1970, the Faculty amended the Resolution, changing the structure of the CRR. Coincidentally, Richard Nixon launched his Cambodia incursion that May, and Harvard was once again engulfed in political protests. After these demonstrations, the student members of the CRR resigned--two because they agreed with the anti-war demonstrations, the third because of pressure from other students to resign. For whatever their reasons, those three students began the boycott...
...Argentina drifts into chaos, union leaders, government officials, diplomats and foreign corporation executives all have reason to fear for their lives. The uncertainty was compounded last week when President Isabel Peron returned home from the hospital amidst persistent rumors that she was about to resign. So far this year more than 700 people have died through political violence, and unofficial estimates put kidnapings at over 250. Largely as a result, Buenos Aires now has 200 or so licensed protection agencies, although most of the business is done by a dozen top firms. One of the largest is Organization Seguridad Integral...
...weakened heart while on the court, he had been partly paralyzed by a stroke last New Year's Eve and was confined to a wheelchair. The lifelong liberal had hung on stubbornly. As Douglas told a friend only a few weeks ago: "I won't resign while there's a breath in my body -until we get a Democratic President...
...week, he tried again as the Justices heard 4½ hours of arguments on one of their most important cases this fall-a challenge to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974. Douglas managed to stay less than two hours. That night he told his wife that he would resign. "It was his decision and his alone," Mrs. Douglas reported. His colleagues on the court had never raised the issue. But he knew that they had determined to delay deciding any case in which his vote would be the tiebreaker. Once the court's most prolific opinion writer...