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...Yosif Begun, a Soviet Jewish mathematician, applied to emigrate to Israel. Although he had worked in the field for 20 consecutive years, he was forced to resign his position at the ministry of communications. Despite his qualifications and the demand for people with his level of training--roughly the equivalent of a master's degree--none of the other institutions in his field would hire him. Nor could he find any other kind of employment with the state. He was warned by the K.G.B. that Soviet citizens have an obligation to work, and that if he failed to find...
Among the mynad forms and documents he had to submit was a simple letter from his place of work, certifying that he did, in fact, work there. When Kats requested this letter, the assistant director of the institute told him to resign first, warning that "bad things would happen" if he didn't. Knowing that it would take many months before his application was even considered. Kats refused to resign. After three weeks, the assistant director finally gave Kats the letter, telling him. "You'll be sorry." Two months later, as Kats was walking home one day at noon, three...
...players wanted her gone. It would be hard to ignore the disrespect of her team, and how it reflects what the players feel about her staying in control of the program. People have speculated that Reardon in the past discussed with Kleinfelder that he would prefer that she resign. At that point, perhaps she should have packed her bags and said "to hell with...
When Byrne did not act, HUD froze $14.5 million in subsidies. The mayor retaliated by taking out $35,000 worth of newspaper ads describing HUD's charges as a smokescreen for "inadequate funding for public housing." Swibel held firm, refusing to resign at a raucous CHA meeting early last week. "I'm staying because I've done nothing wrong," he insisted shortly before being hospitalized with an apparent ulcer attack...
...ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) meet in a concrete, saucer-shaped hall built for the 1972 Munich Olympics, the West German Chancellor faces the sharpest criticism and the most divisive party battle of his eight-year tenure. So important is the confrontation that Schmidt has threatened to resign if the S.P.D. does not support his policy on nuclear defense. Though it appears unlikely that he will have to do so, the five-day debate may further undermine Schmidt's authority at home and abroad...