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...full investigation into the death of the tree and disciplinary action against those responsible. If Epps' self-described "vigorous efforts" cannot expose the obvious perpetrators, an independent investigator should be appointed immediately. And if the investigator concludes the Lampoon is responsible, the entire executive board of the Lampoon should resign in disgrace...
...Margaret Thatcher stumbled -- and then was pushed from power by her own ruling Conservative Party leadership last week. What had still seemed a distant possibility suddenly telescoped into a historic event that caught even Thatcher by surprise. In telling her stunned Cabinet colleagues Thursday morning of her decision to resign as Prime Minister, Thatcher said with a touch of bitterness, "It is rather a funny old world that it has to come to this, when I had won three elections for the Conservative Party and still have the majority of the party's support...
...ministers actually threatened to resign unless Thatcher stepped down. Only three swore total loyalty. David Howell, Tory chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee and a key Heseltine supporter, talked of an "avalanche sliding away from the fantastic Thatcher achievements of the '80s and on to a new presentation and a new assertion of the direction we already are going in. You can't stop an avalanche halfway...
...limits to people's patience. Elsewhere in the region those limits are already being tested. Earlier this month, when the Romanian government withdrew state subsidies on a wide range of goods, many prices more than doubled overnight. Workers and students took to the streets demanding the government's resignation and shouting slogans against President Ion Iliescu and Prime Minister Petre Roman: "Down with Iliescu!" and "Roman, resign!" Says Nica Leon, leader of the Free Democratic Party: "It is a very bleak economic picture. The shops are nearly empty, people have no money, and there ^ is little heat in apartments. Little...
...change would simply heighten the problems by causing postal workers--suddenly faced with loss of their seniority and benefits--to resign en masse, Albanese said. In addition, the Cambridge post master would have to okay all decisions with the Boston office, adding to an already bulky bureaucracy, he said...