Word: resignations
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Several Labor members of the 25-member coalition Cabinet have already threatened to resign if an investigation is not launched. But these defections | are considered unlikely to topple the governing coalition. And while a few months ago the popular Peres seemed to be looking for an excuse to bring down the government, he does not apparently want the coalition to fall over this issue. A recent poll shows that the public, which credits the national unity government with solving many of Israel's economic problems, strongly opposes a breakup of the coalition and early elections...
...short of graduating, instead of nine, as he recently claimed. The university and Basketball Coach "Lefty" Driesell quickly found themselves the targets of charges that athletes, particularly black athletes, are routinely exploited at big-time sports schools. Wendy Whittemore, academic counselor to the basketball team, took the occasion to resign, saying that she thought education was not a top priority for Coach Driesell. Marshall claimed that the coach had urged members of the team to be careful in talking to authorities about drugs and Bias' death. Driesell denied the charge and asked his longtime attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, to represent...
Foremost among the issues facing the faculty was the thorny problem of government-supported research. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was forced to resign as director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies after secret CIA funding for his research and a conference was made public. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence eventually published a report which shifted much of the blame onto some supposedly sloppy administration by Spence's predecessor, Henry Rosovsky. The report was widely perceived both inside and outside of the faculty as a whitewash, and a superficial one at that...
Moore said he would not resign officially fromthe Kennedy School of Government unless he isconfirmed in the post, an event he said he refusesto take for granted. The Boston Globe reportedlast week that ultra-conservative ReaganAdminstration elements had opposed his nomination...
...MAJORITY that two weeks ago called on Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 to resign because of her now infamous act of electioneering today applies a disturbing double standard to the president of the University. President Derek C. Bok has betrayed the respect and trust of the Harvard community, and for that he ought to resign...