Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat fainthearted response to the crisis, ailing, ineffectual President Lon Nol let it be known once again that his government was prepared to resign in exchange for peace talks -but nobody expected the Khmer Rouge to take up the offer. In Washington, Congress continued to debate the merits of an Administration request for increasing emergency aid to the Lon Nol regime (see following story), which has already received almost $2 billion in U.S. aid during the last five years. An equally serious problem, however, was the morale and fighting spirit of the government forces, as Correspondent Range discovered while...
...taken periodic leaves of absence from Harvard, primarily in connection with his role as a labor lawyer. None of his leaves has exceeded the two-year limit beyond which he would be forced to resign his chair...
...Faculty's two-year limitation on leaves of absence was most recently invoked with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50, who was forced to resign his Government Department chair in January 1971, 24 months after he joined the Nixon administration as a special advisor...
...seemed to gain added substance last week when some English newsmen leaked a conversation they had had with Elliot Richardson just before his swearing in as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Richardson said he thought that the odds were fifty-fifty that the Secretary would resign before the end of the year, depending upon the strain of the job and how much Kissinger felt he was being undercut by Congress. Richardson added that he thought he had a 2-to-l chance of becoming the next Secretary of State...
...influence within the Khmer Rouge movement is limited. In late 1973 all but two of the cabinet posts in the shadow government were transferred from his supporters to "members of the internal resistance" operating inside Cambodia. Apparently accepting this decline in his fortunes, Sihanouk has promised to resign as Premier whenever such a step might be "desirable...