Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noreiga engineered Delvalle's ouster after Delvalle called on Noriega to resign Thursday. Noriega had been indicted in the United States on drug charges...
...both parties in Austria's shaky coalition government seemed to harbor serious doubts about the President. Fritz Rucker, vice chairman of the pro-Waldheim People's Party in Salzburg, quit to protest what he called "false slavish loyalty" toward Waldheim. Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, who heads the Socialists, threatened to resign unless the furor over Waldheim died down...
Washington called for Noriega to resign after U.S. grand juries in Miami and Tampa, Fla., indicted him and others on drug trafficking charges...
...first burst onto the national scene in the late 1970s, Harvard underwent a series of wrenching crises to thrash out its policy toward industry. President Bok's plan to accept stock in a professor's biotech company was rejected by the Faculty, while University Professor Walter Gilbert had to resign his post in order to pursue his private business, Biogen. Out of this period came the detailed faculty research policy that still rules today...
...community, too, to be concerned with the role of the CIA on campus. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was commissioned by the CIA to write a book and hold a conference--without disclosing his CIA involvement. In the wake of these revelations, Safran was forced to resign from his post as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and President Bok issued guidlines about disclosing CIA funding for academic research...