Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opportunity Commission, and includes former Watergate Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth Jr. Said Goode: "I tried very hard to find people with an independent thought process. I want the truth." The same day, Managing Director Leo Brooks, who helped direct the assault on the Move headquarters, announced his intention to resign...
...recent months, though, General Dynamics has been awash in charges of millions of dollars in overbilling on Government contracts and allegations of fraud. Congress and the Department of the Navy have both launched investigations of company practices. During all the troubles, Lewis firmly maintained that he would not resign under fire, but last week he announced his retirement...
...country's largest party, the Christian Democrats, by 34.5% to 33%. It was the first time the Italian Communists had come in first in a nationwide vote. Before last week's elections, however, Socialist Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi, who heads the five-party governing coalition, threatened to resign if the Communists again emerged as the leading party. The outcome was in doubt until the end because no forecasts were permitted until all polling booths had closed. In the end, the Communists' mood was changed from hope to deep gloom...
...been common knowledge to many Poles for months. Then last week, the Polish Communist Party made it official: General Miroslaw Milewski, 57, the man who was in charge of the security police at the time of the slaying of Father Jerzy Popieluszko last fall, had been forced to resign from both the ruling Politburo and the Central Committee. Milewski is the highest-ranking official to fall from power as a result of the pro-Solidarity priest's murder. Earlier this year, three secret-police officers were found guilty of the killing, and a fourth was convicted of instigating...
...troubles began early this month when tin miners walked off their jobs, calling for higher wages. Other workers soon joined the miners, paralyzing much of Bolivia. As the tumult grew, radical labor leaders issued a political ultimatum: that Siles, a moderate leftist, resign in favor of a Socialist government. Siles, whose 2 1/2-year-old administration has been marked by indecision, at first sought to compromise. He reiterated an offer of "coadministration" under which seven labor leaders would have been taken into his 16-member Cabinet, but was turned down. At week's end the strike was still on, but both sides...