Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rethinking of that sort has no place in Shamir's strategy, so he might already be pondering how to derail the negotiations if pressure to make concessions becomes overwhelming. One way for him to bail out would be to arrange for several hard-liners to resign from his governing coalition, causing its collapse. That would produce an Israeli election just as the U.S. goes into its own presidential year, when American politicians are even less eager than usual to try to coerce Israel...
...report calls for a revamped police commission with the power to terminate the chief. All five incumbent commissioners were urged to resign, and so far, two have. The report also recommends a new system for addressing citizens' complaints and an emphasis on "community policing" programs, which rely on prevention more than force...
...that hemophiliacs in France are hurling at doctors and government officials after it was revealed that the country's National Center of Blood Transfusion (CNTS) had knowingly distributed AIDS-contaminated blood products to hemophiliacs in 1985. The scandal, which broke two months ago, prompted the center's director to resign, and an official government investigation is under...
...another side to Bush that emerges, albeit reluctantly, when he thinks the national interest is being harmed. It was Bush, as Republican National Committee chairman back in the summer of 1974, who looked across the Cabinet table at Richard Nixon and made it plain that he ought to resign for the good of the country. It was Bush, as Vice President, who summoned Regan to his office in 1987 and put the final pressure on him to leave, enduring Regan's tirade but never yielding...
Give belated credit once again to the unheralded Jerry Ford. Having trouble with the strong-willed James Schlesinger, who then was Secretary of Defense, Ford called him in one Sunday morning in 1975 and asked for his resignation. Give credit to Schlesinger, who refused to resign and insisted he be fired. Ford obliged...