Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) has all but decided to resign, friends said yesterday, but he remained torn over details of his leaving and insisted he had "done no serious wrong" despite numerous ethics allegations...
...famous also-ran. The Liberal Party leader stirred up last November's elections with impassioned attacks on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, but failed to sweep Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney out of office. Last week, conceding the need for "fresh leadership," Turner said he would resign after a date is set to choose a successor. Likeliest prospect: Quebec's Jean Chretien, a former Justice and Finance minister...
When the Rev. Calvin Butts III of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church was asked by CBS about the attack, he spoke of "the examples that our children are faced with." Such as? "We've had Presidents resign, foreign Prime Ministers resign in disgrace. We've had Oliver North lie publicly on television . . . And many of our youngsters, across racial lines, see that and then...
...short term, the L.D.P. will be preoccupied with designating a new Prime Minister. Takeshita promised to resign when the Diet enacted a 1989 budget, now one month overdue. In a departing act of bravado, Takeshita defied the Diet's tradition of consensus to push the budget through the lower house without the participation of the opposition parties. They had refused to take part until former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in office when the most flagrant abuses occurred, testified about his role. The budget will probably become law in 30 days, and Takeshita will step down...
...reference to Nikolai Gogol's 19th century novel, read like a Who's Who from the time of Leonid Brezhnev. Included were a former President, a former Prime Minister, five marshals, six generals and a portfolio of onetime Politburo members. What's more, they had "requested" to resign in an extraordinary statement that expressed "unanimous support for the political course of our dear party." As Gorbachev explained to the plenum, "One generation of party members has naturally to replace another...