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Sports Information Director Frank Cicero announced this week that he will resign effective June 30, ending a four-year association with the office at 60 JFK Street...
...publication of the 'Dear Nate' letter caused a campus-wide scandal. Soon afterward, Ford suffered a stroke that eventually led him to resign his post...
...strong ally in the movement for racial equality. But under Reagan, the panel became more of a bystander. Now high hopes for the commission's revival under George Bush are in danger of being undermined by the antics of its chairman, William Barclay Allen. He refuses to resign despite broad hints from the White House that he should step aside...
...that the mistress of War Minister John Profumo was also carrying on with a Soviet naval attache helped bring about the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government, sex scandals have been as absorbing a British pastime as royal weddings. Six years ago, Trade Secretary Cecil Parkinson was forced to resign when it became public knowledge that his mistress was about to bear his illegitimate child. Sixteen years ago, Air Force Minister Lord Lambton lost his job when photographers caught him in bed with two prostitutes. As the tabloids breathlessly chronicled the latest ado, political circles in London fell into that...
Much as the Nationalists want Botha to resign, there are no signs that they will muster the audacity to force him out. They are too accustomed to subservience and too respectful of his position to challenge him politically. Talk in party circles now centers on a face-saving compromise under which Botha would share decision making with De Klerk, then retire gracefully in a few months. But P.W. Botha seems to have a "compromise" of his own in mind: he will serve out the last year of his term and De Klerk will wait his turn...