Word: resignations
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...heaped on Safran. It seems that when Safran signed the CIA contract for his book nearly four years ago, he told then Dean Henry Rosovsky about it. Somehow, Rosovsky's office never got around to responding. Last week Safran, angry at the prolonged controversy and the pressure to resign, stoutly defended his integrity and scholarship: "I have received requests for my book . . . from the Saudi embassy in Washington...
...first of several scandals occurred when Defense Minister Robert Coates was forced to resign after an Ottawa newspaper revealed that he had visited a West German strip club during a tour of NATO installations and shared a drink with a woman who described herself as an "exotic dancer." Fisheries Minister John Fraser resigned early last September in the furor that followed a television program's disclosure that he had allowed tainted tuna to be sold to Canadian consumers. And a few days later, Communications Minister Marcel Masse had to leave the Cabinet (he has since returned) while the Royal Canadian...
...government find a Canadian buyer for the company. Quebecers protested when the government allowed Ultramar, a British owned oil firm, to close down a Montreal refinery. Suzanne Blais-Grenier, who had already been demoted from her post as Environment Minister, used the controversy as an excuse to resign...
...along with him because Shamir is anxious to avoid a clash that could jeopardize his chance of taking over as Prime Minister in October as scheduled. Some Likud Cabinet members oppose this solution, which they regard as giving in to Egyptian pressure. But after Peres threatened last week to resign if a decision is not reached soon, it appeared likely that the threat of a government crisis would produce a consensus...
...American debut in a sizzling Norma, and the Lyric became home to such 1950s and '60s legends as Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano and Baritone Tito Gobbi. By 1980, though, economic troubles had put the company $300,000 in the red, and Fox was forced to resign...