Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Step Aside. Finally Hathaway told President Ford that he felt ill and had lost 15 lbs. He offered to resign. Ford brushed the suggestion aside, proposing instead that Hathaway see Rear Admiral William Lukash, the President's personal physician. After an examination, Lukash promptly ordered the Interior Secretary into Bethesda Naval Medical Center. From there last week came word that Hathaway was suffering from exhaustion and "reactive depression" (for which psychiatric care has been prescribed). He also has a mild case of diabetes, which will require no insulin, only dietary control...
Other Christian Democratic leaders tried to persuade Fanfani to resign gracefully. Moro conceded that the Christian Democrats had been guilty of an "arrogance of power" for not recognizing the changing moods of youth, women and labor. He professed "solidarity" with Fanfani but firmly dissociated the fate of the party secretary from that of his own government...
...Rega had just been forced to resign as Minister of Social Welfare and personal secretary to President Isabel Perón-the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death of her husband a year ago, was clearly in poor physical and emotional health. Argentina seemed to be teetering ever closer to economic collapse...
...Where can he play? Superstar Reggie Jackson owns right, fleet Bill North roams center like a gazelle, and modest Joe Rudi is known as the best leftfielder in baseball. Most teen-age players would cast a glance at that outfield and sign up with another club or resign themselves to ten years in the minors. Not Claudell Washington. He had an A's contract at age 17, starred in the World Series last year at 20, and this season has taken over leftfield and was chosen to be a member of the American League squad in this week...
...distress, the church's Council of Presidents turned to the Anaheim convention. By a vote of 626 to 466, the delegates passed a resolution ordering district presidents to require the endorsement of an official seminary before certifying candidates for ordination. Any president who does not do so must resign or have his office declared vacant...