Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marriage banns also led to a divorce. S.D.P. Leader David Owen, who had helped found the party as a breakaway movement from Labor, had opposed the merger, citing basic differences on defense policy. Last week he made good on a threat to resign. Steel called that "logical," while decrying Owen's opposition as "profoundly mistaken...
Given all the frustrations and rebuffs, why did Shultz not resign? In fact, Shultz testified, he offered to resign on three occasions, none directly related to the Iranian arms deals. The first was in 1983, when McFarlane took a secret trip to the Middle East without informing the State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan...
Shultz rejected suggestions from a few committee Republicans that he should have threatened to resign when his advice on the Iran arms sales was not followed. Snapped Shultz in reply to Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde: "Would you have said that I should have sat there on Dec. 7 in the White House and said, 'Mr. President, I see you're wavering, and if you should decide against me, goodbye'?" He added, "That's not the way to play this game at all. I'm there to help the President, not make his life more difficult...
After his forceful testimony, the embattled George Shultz seems in no mood to resign. At the department he heads, morale soared. Said a Foggy Bottom official: "George went out and was George. He was honest and plainspoken. He showed the department to be the only honorable entity in all of the mess." From the White House came high praise from Reagan, though some presidential aides thought Shultz had been self-serving. A spokesman said the President hoped Shultz would continue at his post...
Elected to Parliament as its youngest Member at 29, Archer has had a tumultuous career. He was forced to give up politics and resign from Parliament five years later when bad investments left him near bankruptcy. Those misfortunes became the grist for his first best seller, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1975), a title that his lawyer last week jokingly suggested should serve as a guide to the jury in setting damages. Archer's seven books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, making him a multimillionaire and, until last fall, a star on the Tory speaking circuit...