Word: resigned
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Butz should resign--although if rumors that Ford is preparing for Butz's dismissal are true his resignation may not even be necessary. Ford will have to contend with a constituency that remains fiercely loyal to Butz--the farmers, a group whose interests he has served diligently. Certainly, the Secretary of Agriculture should not ignore the interests of American farmers, but he should not serve them to the detriment of farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. American agricultural policies must begin to take the rest of the world into account. One of the Norwegian delegates in Rome suggested that...
Derrick A. Bell Jr., professor of Law, has threatened to resign if the Law School does not substantially increase its efforts to hire minority faculty...
Leonard, who is on leave as an assistant dean at the Law School, said that Bell urged the Law School to search harder for qualified minority faculty members. He said that Bell's threat was "an observation that he might be called upon" to resign if such a search did not occur...
Social Peace. Stehlin's assessment was perceived as a vicious stab at the national honor. Gaullist Party Leader Alexandre Sanguinetti howled that his remarks were "an aggression against the nation as a whole." As a result of the furor, Stehlin was forced to resign as vice president of the Assembly, and last week the government ordered him to retire from the air force reserve...
Last week, less than three months after he was forced to resign the presidency, Nixon lay in critical condition in Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center. The cause was internal bleeding in the wake of sudden surgery for blood clots in his left leg and lower abdomen. It is thought that the anticoagulant drugs he had been taking had caused a tendency toward prolonged bleeding, and he went into shock. His family gathered round in vigil, their photographed faces masked by now familiar anguish. President Gerald Ford sent red roses to his predecessor and offered prayers on Nixon...