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...troubles began early this month when tin miners walked off their jobs, calling for higher wages. Other workers soon joined the miners, paralyzing much of Bolivia. As the tumult grew, radical labor leaders issued a political ultimatum: that Siles, a moderate leftist, resign in favor of a Socialist government. Siles, whose 2 1/2-year-old administration has been marked by indecision, at first sought to compromise. He reiterated an offer of "coadministration" under which seven labor leaders would have been taken into his 16-member Cabinet, but was turned down. At week's end the strike was still on, but both sides...
...week a New York State Supreme Court justice phoned to tell Donovan, who happened to be in Washington at the time, that he would not dismiss the indictment; Donovan would have to stand trial. Hours later, the Labor Secretary became the first sitting Cabinet member in U.S. history to resign in the face of criminal charges...
...Administration said it had no shortlist of potential successors to Donovan. Labor Under Secretary Ford B. Ford, who has run the department in his absence, is not considered a candidate. "The President would have been reluctant to have us looking around until Donovan had decided (to resign) on his own," according to one Administration official. Said another: "The search for a replacement starts tomorrow...
...charges carry a maximum prison term of 265 years, as well as $74,000 in fines and forfeiture of all ill-gotten gains. Among them: a $200,000 yacht named Pipe Dreams that, prosecutors say, Edwards secretly bought for his son Stephen. Edwards conceded that he would have to resign if convicted. Said he: "I will plummet instantly from an enviable life to a miserable existence." And the good times will roll no more...
...wake of the recent announcement that Professor of Government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. will resign over accusations of sexual harassment, it is necessary at this time to put the incident in its proper perspective. First, his resignation should and, indeed, must serve as a clear signal that sex discrimination and sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination--will not, cannot, and ought not be legated at a University, such as Harvard, which has hopes of truly achieving its goals of co-education. Second, because neither the exact nature of the allegation concerning Hibbs or the extent to which...