Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bhutto did not resign, but the rising tide of bitterness signaled the end of an era of good will that had accompanied his takeover of power after Pakistan's defeat in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. Bhutto tried to repair the damage wrought by his predecessor, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, whose brutal excesses in East Pakistan forced the province to break away and form the nation of Bangladesh. He pushed through a land reform program, gave the country a constitution that changed the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system, and reaped a windfall in aid (almost...
...curb inflationary wage settlements, Reagan opposes the overall measure because of the picketing provisions. Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the President's campaign manager, has warned that signing the bill would hurt him "in every one of the 50 states." Ford is expected to veto the bill. Dunlop might then resign...
Irons is involved in other activities outside the Law School besides the Hiss case. He is director of a university without walls program in Boston, part of UMass-Amherst. He teaches a course on the American socialist movement there, but plans to resign in January to become more of a full-time law student. He is also the chairman of the New England branch of the Committee to Repeal Repressive Legislation...
...case, the next issue came and went with no mention of Mayaguez, something Karnow considered inexcusable. This incident, compounded with other differences Peretz and Karnow were having, was enough to make Karnow resign...
Several second- and third-year Architecture students, who asked to remain anonymous, all expressed their surprise at the news. One said he had not had the "faintest idea" that Anselevicius would resign...