Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutor readily provided it. As he told the newspaper: "I'm concerned about the victims-car owners or the insurance companies that have paid off claims." Last Monday Kennedy spent a day explaining his indiscretion to angry superiors in Washington; he is now under heavy pressure to resign...
...BRITISH will only go so far, Margaret Thatcher's government has suffered in the Falkland crisis, receiving harsh criticism for not warning the public of the chances of an Argentine invasion. Lord Carrington, the able statesman who led the transfer of power in Rhodesia, was forced to resign along with several lower-level officials. Clearly, the British felt shamed and enraged by the Argentine take-over. Thatcher, bitterly attacked for her supply-side economic policy, is now determined to win big in the Falklands and rally support around the Tory government. In the several days since the fortilla set sail...
...Gaza, Israelis were preparing for the final withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, an event that some of them opposed and many dreaded. In a week of drama, the controversial withdrawal, in turn, provoked an Israeli parliamentary crisis, very nearly forcing Prime Minister Menachem Begin to resign and call for new elections. The vote marked the beginning of a parliamentary struggle that was likely to last throughout most of the year...
...dissident elements behind a patriotic cause. Says one Arab diplomat who has had extensive dealings with Tehran: "The Iranians now believe that the longer the war goes on the more they are in control. With every week that passes they feel they are placing added pressure on Saddam to resign...
...departure of a top executive, even in the volatile news business, is normally a pleasant and courtly ritual marked by parting gifts and deferential staff tributes. That was not the way things went when NBC News President William Small, 55, was forced to resign two weeks ago. Reporters at NBC's Washington bureau danced in the corridors when they heard the news, singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Someone ripped the name plates from the doors of NBC Correspondents Bernard and Marvin Kalb, who had followed longtime CBS News Executive Small to NBC in 1980. Meanwhile...