Word: resignations
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AUSTRIA. Exactly the opposite is true here, where Jorg Haider, an articulate young (43) David Duke look-alike, is smooth enough to be described as a "yuppie fascist." Last summer he declared that the Nazis "had a proper employment policy in the Third Reich," then had to resign his provincial governorship in the protest that ensued. But he has led his Austrian Freedom Party to a higher share of the vote in 13 straight provincial and national elections, and in November the party won a startling 23% of the ballots in staunchly Socialist Vienna. It just might poll enough...
...recent weeks the MIA industry has been given a new lift by retired Major General Oleg Kalugin, former head of counterintelligence for the KGB, who was forced to resign in 1990 after he became one of the agency's most truculent public critics. Kalugin has told several U.S. news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News, that the KGB questioned "at least" three American POWs in Vietnam in 1978, five years after Hanoi said it had returned all living prisoners...
...forces have long banned homosexuals, arguing that they undermine morale and could be vulnerable to blackmail. Last week U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch came up with a new reason for excluding them in a ruling upholding the U.S. Naval Academy's treatment of Joseph Steffan, who was forced to resign in 1987 after his commanders heard he was gay. It was the need to protect soldiers and sailors from AIDS...
...alert signal has been sent loudly and unavoidably to those opposed to statehood. It remains on their hands to listen to the voice of history and adapt their expectations to reality. They can either resign themselves to the notion that the needy pockets of the island's poor are mightier than their hearts, or they can refuel the struggle for the defense of our national identity and right to self-determination. The hope of Puerto Rico lies in their ability to look intimidatingly at the eyes of fear--and defeat it at its own game...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced Wednesday that Maher would resign by June. Maher, who began his three-year term in 1989, said that he was anxious to return to his research...