Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mentor in a Tokyo hotel suite. As the tearful Prime Minister later told party leaders, he did not ask Tanaka outright to give up his seat in parliament, but "I believe what I meant to say was understood." If so, Tanaka ignored the hint. He has resolutely refused to resign and has vowed to take his case to the supreme court...
Responding to the question of why he resigned, on April 30, 1973, Ehrlichman said, "I didn't resign, I was canned...
...party congress, former Research and Industry Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of one of the party's left-wing factions, called for a more radical, reflationary and protectionist economic course. Chevènement, who was forced to resign from his cabinet post this year after opposing austerity, claimed the support of close to 20% of the delegates. The consensus of the congress, following Mitterrand's lead, was that rigor had to be sustained for another year or more, but that ways must be found to ease the pain of economic sacrifice. Mitterrand and the party leadership...
...strongest opposition to Kirkpatrick came from Shultz. He implied to a few associates that he would resign if she got the NSC post, and that word was passed to the White House. But the question in the minds of the White House staff soon became not whether Kirkpatrick would get the job, but how to assuage her disappointment about her loss to McFarlane and the decline of her influence now that Clark was gone...
Commission Member Felix Antonio announced that Arturo Tolentino, a respected politician who had turned down Marcos' offer to be chairman of the panel, had persuaded the President to accept several new conditions. In order to give Tolentino "a free hand," Antonio said, the entire commission would resign. Four days later, Marcos announced that a totally new, and presumably more independent, panel would be named. Two of its members will be appointed by the Marcos-dominated parliament, but three to five others will be chosen on the basis of recommendations from "various sectors of society." Said Commission Member Filemon Fernandez...