Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private meetings with Carter, Vance finally said he would resign if the rescue mission went through. Carter asked him to stay. Vance said he would continue in office if he could dissent publicly about the mission. Carter reluctantly agreed, and Vance left the Oval Office. But after a few minutes he returned. "Forget I said that," he told the President, and then explained that he felt it would be wrong for him to make public his lack of support for such an important venture...
...beating and whose friends thought he should feel emancipated by his departure, Vance seemed surprisingly uncheered by the prospect of a Caribbean vacation and a return to the more leisurely and lucrative life of a senior New York lawyer. Vance deeply regretted the circumstances that led him to resign, although he had no regrets about the resignation itself...
...Milovan Djilas began arguing for democratic reforms and criticizing the Communist Party elite in the mid-1950s, Tito had him jailed. After Croatian nationalism flared up during a period of liberalization in the late 1960s, he came down hard on the Croats and in 1971 forced their leaders to resign. He also launched a purge of liberals, which reminded the world that Yugoslavia was still a Communist nation run by a dictator. Yet by 1977 the trend was again away from the hard line, and the atmosphere was becoming relaxed...
...though no one else tops that figure. Moreover, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, whose popularity is second to Begin's in the government, asserted in a bombshell interview on Israeli TV that because Begin's Cabinet had lost the confidence of the public, it should resign. Such a move would force new elections long before the term of the present Israeli parliament runs out in late 1981, but it is unlikely to occur. Weizman was immediately condemned by Housing Minister David Levy as a "deep disappointment," and a clamor for his resignation arose...
...Deng Xiaoping. Former Sichuan Province Governor Zhao Ziyang, 61, and former Anhui Province Party Leader Wan Li, 64, were both elevated to the rank of Vice Premier; to make room for them, two longtime holdovers from the fading era of the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung were asked to resign. Zhao in particular was singled out by Deng as the new administrator who would be "in charge of the day-to-day work of the Cabinet...