Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meir followed her announcement to the party with a formal resignation speech before the Knesset. The modernistic chamber was filled to capacity as she trudged to the podium. The mood of the meeting was even more grim than expected: that morning, Palestinian guerrillas had sneaked across Israel's border from Lebanon to carry out a massacre at Qiryat Shemona in which 18 people were killed (see following story). The raid, Mrs. Meir said, "surpasses in its barbarity all that has gone before." She followed up an account of the assault with an explanation of her decision to resign...
...preparedness for the October war (TIME, April 15). Two weeks ago, the commission, chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shimon Agranat, issued a report sharply criticizing Israel's military leadership; Lieut. General David Elazar, the chief of staff, and five other high-ranking officers were forced to resign. But the Agranat Commission cleared Israel's civilian leaders, including Dayan and Mrs. Meir, thereby raising a storm of protest...
...Likud last week successfully demanded a special session of the Knesset in order to present a no-confidence motion. Twice before, under similar attacks, Dayan had gone to Mrs. Meir and offered to resign. Both times she refused. Last week, when he made the same gesture, she was ominously noncommittal. Chatting with Mrs. Meir at a Labor meeting, Haifa Mayor Yosef Almogi commented: "You realize that it won't end with Dayan. They're really aiming at you." Replied the Premier caustically: "You're telling...
Dayan, who until last week nurtured hopes of becoming Premier himself one day, refused to resign. That left Mrs. Meir with two choices: to beat back the Likud no-confidence vote or to resign herself. Realizing that she was likely to lose a Knesset vote, she opted to replace the debate on her government's performance with a speech of resignation. "I only regret," she told party leaders before her Knesset appearance, "that I have to bring down the government with me." She will head a caretaker government until a new Premier is installed or another election is called...
...House. Should a plea for help arrive, however, unstumpable Ann Landers will be ready. Last week, speaking to 1,500 students at Notre Dame, Eppie Lederer, who has been "Ann" for 19 years, was asked how she would advise President Nixon. "Get on national television and say 'I resign,' " said Ann bluntly. At a recent White House reception she went on to relate, a "prominent politician" approached her: "So you're Ann Landers -tell me something funny." Replied Ann, quick as usual with a putdown: "So you're a politician-tell...