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Heseltine embarrassed Thatcher two weeks ago by becoming the first British Minister since 1887 to resign by storming out of a Cabinet meeting. He followed that flamboyant gesture by charging Brittan with trying to pressure British Aerospace into pulling out of the European consortium. Brittan denied the claim, but conceded that he had warned British Aerospace that a decision against Sikorsky might be considered anti-American and could hurt the firm's U.S. sales, which account for about 12% of revenues...
...felt free earlier to reveal the letter's existence because it was marked PRIVATE AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. Said Brittan: "I had no intention of deceiving the House. If it is thought in any way that I misled the House, I apologize unreservedly." His confession brought opposition choruses of "Resign!" and "Withdraw...
Last week the Prime Minister won over the Likud ministers by implicitly threatening to resign and thus bring down the government. His secret weapon: the Likud's knowledge that it must not cause too much trouble between now and October, when Peres is due to exchange jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader. Later in the week Peres scored a victory of another kind: the establishment of diplomatic relations with Spain for the first time. CANADA Markets on the Mind...
Manes' world swiftly became more lonely and hostile. Koch, feeling betrayed by his friend, called Manes "a crook" and urged him to resign. "It was the biggest shock that I've suffered politically," Koch told TIME last week. Manes did resign on Feb. 11. The final blow came last week, when his friend Lindenauer pleaded guilty to extortion and mail fraud and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Apparently that was enough to drive Manes to his last desperate act--an end foreshadowed 31 years earlier when his own father, despondent over reported financial reverses, shot himself to death. --By John...
González called the vote a "triumph for the Spanish people." It was also a triumph for González. He had taken office in 1982 on an anti-NATO platform, but then changed his mind and supported continued Spanish membership. During the campaign, he hinted that he would resign and call early elections if he lost. "I always said that the final result depended on Felipe's final address, and I wasn't far wrong," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Inocencio Arias. After lying low for much of the prevoting skirmishes, González pulled out all the stops in the last...