Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long "Column One" pieces on group violence to two Times Mirror polls showing deteriorating support for police chief Daryl Gates. It was not until Coffey and other editors interviewed Gates and published what he said, however, that the editorial board ran a cautious editorial calling on the chief to resign...
...eyes of many outraged citizens in Los Angeles and elsewhere, responsibility for the beating rests with Chief Gates. Though he has rebuffed demands that he resign, a citizens' group last week began a push for a special election to undo what practically amounts to his lifetime appointment as leader of the nation's third largest police department. Almost unique among police chiefs, Gates cannot be dismissed by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, himself a former L.A.P.D. lieutenant, or by a five-member police commission, except "for cause" -- misconduct or willful neglect of duty...
...interview televised in Britain, Abu Sharif hinted that a Palestinian state might not have to include every last bit of the West Bank; the implication was that Israel might keep part of that occupied territory. The P.L.O. disavowed any such idea, and Abu Sharif reportedly offered to resign. Still, his words pointed to unconventional thinking within the P.L.O...
...think police chief Gates should resign over this incident...
...fraud was uncovered when a high-tech deep-sea search found the scrap metal and concluded that the Lucona had been deliberately scuttled. Two former government ministers were forced to resign after being accused of involvement in the scandal. Proksch plans to appeal...