Word: resignations
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...Proportion of Britons who believe that Tony Blair should "resign and hand over to someone else," according to a poll for the Independent...
Hehir led the Divinity School through a period of tumult after his predecessor, Ronald F. Thiemann, stepped down in the fall of 1998. Thiemann, an ordained Lutheran, was forced to resign from his deanship after technicians found pornography on a computer at his University-owned mansion...
...between Downing Street and the BBC over whether Blair oversold the case for war in Iraq. A direct finding that Blair lied when he denied any role in "outing" Kelly to reporters would put the P.M.'s job in serious jeopardy. Two-thirds of the public think Blair should resign if the report declares him a liar, according to a poll by ICM Research...
...hard-liners were hoping to regain control of the 290-member, reformist-dominated Parliament. But dissenting M.P.s began a sit-in at Parliament in protest: if the council doesn't back down, a source in the reformist camp tells TIME, they will make good on a threat to resign en masse and possibly force their moderate leader, President Mohammed Khatami, to step down as well. "It's becoming an all-or-nothing fight," says the source. "The conservatives are intent on ousting the reformists, and the reformists are just as determined to stand up to them...
...Demanding Democracy iran Hard-line clerics reinstated more than 300 of the thousands of candidates they had disqualified from February's parliamentary elections, in response to a request by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei for them to reconsider their ban. However, more than 70 senior civil servants threatened to resign if all the disqualifications were not overturned; many members of the Cabinet and six vice presidents had already tendered their resignations, but President Mohammed Khatami refused to accept them. Unity Moves turkey The powerful National Security Council called for new negotiations to reunite Cyprus ' Greek-speaking south and Turkish-speaking...