Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about how the Supreme Court will rule on her petition to reverse a lower-court decision finding her guilty of corrupt practices during the 1971 election campaign. The ruling by the court is expected in one to three months. If she loses her appeal, she will be ordered to resign her seat in Parliament-and hence as Prime Minister. In this case, however, the Election Commissioner is expected to set aside the ruling that Mrs. Gandhi must forfeit her seat. By then, Parliament will probably have indefinitely extended the state of emergency, which would enable the Prime Minister to keep...
Hall said when a new director is found Rouillard will probably be moved to another position in B & G management. "He has not been terminated or asked to resign," Hall said...
...Harris' firm a 2.5% brokerage fee on any overseas loan it could arrange for the government. Cairns, who had earlier denied in the House of Representatives that he had ever made such an offer, claimed that he had no recollection of signing the letter. When he refused to resign, Whitlam fired...
...Parliament (TIME, June 23). Even before that, as Mrs. Gandhi noted in one speech last week, there had been threats to India's internal security. "Duly elected [state] governments have not been allowed to function, and in some cases force has been used to compel members to resign in order to dissolve lawfully elected assemblies," she declared. "Agitations have surcharged the atmosphere, leading to violent incidents." Although she did not mention the apparent attempt on her own life in March, when a Hindi newspaper editor was arrested with a loaded pistol as he entered the courtroom in which...
...wake of that Solomon-like ruling, a number of India's leading newspapers editorially suggested that Mrs. Gandhi step down. The independent Indian Express put the matter bluntly: "The course for the Prime Minister, until the Supreme Court pronounces its final verdict, admits of no ambiguity. She must resign forthwith in the nation's and her own interest." That cry was echoed by Narayan and other opposition leaders, who promptly laid plans for the civil disobedience campaign that forced Mrs. Gandhi...