Word: resignment
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...interview three weeks ago, National Guard Commander Rubén Dario Paredes mused: "Twenty-four more months, it's a bit long." When Royo's decision to quit the presidency became known, there were few doubts that the National Guard had forced him to resign and that the country Torrijos had kept balanced between the extremes would now be tilting right. Panama, for the last decade one of the few stable nations in strife-torn Central America, now faces a decidedly uncertain future...
...handshake deals, but range from a few months' pay for relatively new workers to full pension benefits and generous bonuses for those nearing retirement. Insiders say that management's goal is to trim the staff by 15%. Supervisors have warned their workers that unless enough of them resign, layoffs may follow. Says one junior executive fearful of losing her job: "We assume they won't get enough people to go voluntarily...
Some Reagan aides are hoping that Donovan will step aside to spare the Administration any possible embarrassment. But Donovan has other ideas. "I have no plans tc resign," he said last week. "I think I'm a political asset...
...zone to besieging the capital and threatening a bloody assault. "Unlike other wars, this one was one war on the first day and it became a different war," charged Victor Shem-Tov, a leader of Napam, the left-wing ally of the Labor Party, who demanded Sharon's resignation. Outraged, Sharon shot back: "I don't intend to resign...
Argentina's three-man ruling junta was riven over the choice of a new President to succeed Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, the army general who was forced to resign after his troops surrendered to the British two weeks ago. Following five days of bickering, army Major General Cristino Nicolaides, the junta's newest member, ignored navy and air force objections and endorsed retired Major General Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, 54, as the country's seventh military President in six years. Said Bignone, who was scheduled to be sworn in this week: "I am absolutely certain that with...