Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clark told Reagan of his intention to resign during the New Year's holiday. The request was hardly new. Almost two years ago, Clark, then National Security Adviser, felt worn down by White House battles and talked of leaving Washington. But Reagan persuaded Clark to stay, and later appointed him to replace bumptious James Watt as Interior Secretary. After the election, hard-line conservatives pushed Clark as a replacement for Chief of Staff James Baker, who aspired to a Cabinet post. The President kept Baker. There has been speculation that Clark is leaving because he has no prospect of returning...
...Administration may also soon lose United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Long frustrated in her attempts to win a more powerful niche in Washington's foreign policy hierarchy, Kirkpatrick in late November said she would resign when the 1984 U.N. session ended. She has since agreed to remain until March. The President greatly respects the sometimes cantankerous Kirkpatrick and is scheduled to talk to her about job prospects after the Inauguration. Her desire to become a top adviser in the White House, however, seems unlikely to be fulfilled...
...year ago the U.S. formally served notice that it would resign from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unless the Paris-based group streamlined its bloated bureaucracy and righted its anti-Western tilt. Last week, asserting that "an unacceptable gap clearly remains," Washington made good its threat. Gregory Newell, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, announced that the U.S. will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of this month. He said that the U.S. was pulling out because the organization continued to exhibit "an endemic hostility toward the institutions of a free society-particularly those...
...Sandinistas suffered some embarrassments of their own last week. After five years of warnings, the Society of Jesus expelled Fernando Cardenal Martinez when the priest refused to resign as Nicaragua's Education Minister. Jesuit officials in Rome cited a 1983 canon law that forbids priests to hold posts that carry civil powers. In a 19-page open letter, Cardenal defended his job as a "pact with the poor." There was no word from the Vatican on the three other priests in the Nicaraguan government, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...
When Professor Cobb** chose to resign...