Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political pique, defeated Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemào threatened to resign his caretaker post if Scares has not formed a government in 30 days. Moreover, even if a new coalition is patched together, no one would place bets on its longevity. Yet the stakes this time are high. As Scares put it last week, "The Socialist Party cannot fail in its mandate. That would endanger the very regime." Translation: if the Socialists and Social Democrats do not come to terms, there is nothing left...
...results rolled in and Austrians waited to see what face-saving explanation Kreisky might offer to save his job, the Chancellor surprised them by instead keeping his promise. "Yes, this is definitely a defeat," he said. "I take the consequences and resign." He urged the Socialists to turn over both the chancellorship and the leadership of the party to Education Minister Fred Sinowatz, 54. Said Kreisky: "I am much too old for the haggling needed in a coalition." And, some associates concluded, much too proud...
Gilmore's attorney, Edward Mance, told Ahalt that the associate professor would also resign from the university and withdraw his appeal to a Campus Senate committee to save...
...said the Government's chief prosecutor Douglas Roller, "a day of reckoning." Hours before he was to report to a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., Roy L. Williams agreed to resign from the presidency of the 1.9 million-member Teamsters Union in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his case. He was convicted in December for conspiring with four other defendants to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada...
...centimeters every day." Faced with a severe equipment shortage, Galtieri reveals that he bought ten Mirage jets from Peru, then cut a deal with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the delivery of five Boeings loaded with materiel. Galtieri also admits what everyone has suspected all along: he did not resign voluntarily after the debacle. His fellow generals forced him to quit...