Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier this year, Peretz announced he would resign his mastership at the end of the current academic term...
...policy, and Wilson, a man who has traditionally placed party unity above all, is now presiding over what may prove to be the worst Labor crisis since World War II. Some pro-EEC Labor ministers, notably Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Consumer Affairs Minister Shirley Wilson, have threatened to resign if the vote should go against the Common Market...
...into a test case for our policy." He intimated that the U.S. may recognize the government of North Viet Nam before long, and he disclosed that the U.S. has made a number of recent diplomatic overtures to Cuba. With some heat, he denied reports that he was about to resign: "To leave in a period of turmoil, when people are looking for a sense of direction and when foreign nations are watching us-I think it would not be a service to the country...
...RESIGNATION. Huong, under pressure from U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin and Saigon leaders to resign, capitulated at about 4:30 Sunday afternoon, saying that he would transfer the presidency to the "personality" chosen by South Viet Nam's legislature?and "the sooner the better." Hours later, the National Assembly voted 134 to 2 to give the job to Big Minh...
Kissinger, it can safely be said, will not resign. He wants to finish the term with Ford-if the President wants him, and Kissinger has no doubts now that Ford does. The Secretary might have resigned if Nixon had survived Watergate, or if he himself had succeeded in the Middle East and Viet Nam had not gone under. But now he will not, even though he has accumulated some rather impressive enemies, which was perhaps inevitable once Nixon left the scene...