Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nadav Safran, director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will resign his post at the end of the academic year, following a three-month investigation into his handling of two Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) grants totalling more than...
Spence said in an interview that Safran was told he could stay on as director but that he had chosen to step down. When asked whether he had recommended that Safran resign, Spence declined comment...
Tolentino's willingness to serve as Marcos' vice-presidential candidate caught many Filipinos off guard. Last month when Marcos endorsed Cabinet Bill No. 7, calling the Feb. 7 election, Tolentino was among the first to label the contest unconstitutional because Marcos refuses to resign before the vote is held. Last week the feisty Tolentino, whose quick wit and muscular physique belie his age, found a new position. "If the Supreme Court rules the bill unconstitutional, then there will be no election," he said. "If it doesn't, there will be (an election), and we have to support the Supreme Court...
...Marcos and Aquino prepared last week for the formal launching of their campaigns, a cloud hung over the entire enterprise. Marcos opponents have filed ten petitions before the Supreme Court seeking to cancel the election because the President has refused to resign before it is held, as required under the constitution. The petitioners hope to delay the vote and thereby win the opposition more campaign time. But the ploy could backfire. If it begins to appear that either opposition candidate might outpoll the President, the Supreme Court, which is dominated by Marcos appointees, might declare the election null and void...
...Caribbean island of Martinique, Premier Laurent Fabius caused an outcry by publicly taking issue with the President over Jaruzelski's visit, admitting that he was "personally troubled" by it. Mitterrand reportedly was irritated by his subordinate's remarks, but after a transatlantic conversation, the President rejected Fabius' offer to resign. Jaruzelski, for his part, termed his 80-minute tete- a-tete with Mitterrand "useful and sincere...