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Last month unemployment reached a new record of 1.36 million, or 5.9%, and Economics Minister Otto Lambsdorff warned that the total could reach 2 million next year. But Schmidt's main problem is rising left-wing opposition in his party to the new U.S. missiles. The Chancellor could resign if his party does not support him on the issue at its convention next April...
When first word of all this got out during the debate on nationalization, the Socialists accused Paribas Chairman Pierre Moussa, 59, of what Premier Pierre Mauroy called a "shocking lack of civic spirit." In the ensuing scandal, Moussa was forced to resign...
Last year Arrupe, Superior General since 1965, cited age and health in asking John Paul's permission to resign. In August, felled by a stroke that left him partially paralyzed, Arrupe, 73, followed Jesuit legal procedure and selected a Vicar General (interim leader), American Father Vincent O'Keefe, 61, to run the order. O'Keefe is a former president of Fordham University. Unable to speak intelligibly because of his illness, Arrupe has not replied to John Paul's announcement that he was naming Dezza as "a delegate who will represent me more closely in the society...
...sacred principle in Canada. It is--but by convention, not by law. Or, a foreigner might assume that when an incumbent federal party loses its majority in an election, it must automatically turn over the reins of power to the winning party, and that the incumbent prime minister must resign. Again, this is true only by convention, and not by law. The technical, though merely nominal, power to form any government lies with the Governor-General, the monarch's very own representative in Canada (a spot now occupied by Canadians--by convention...
...bearing gifts") and an archival "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("We will not possess it. It will possess us"). Wits wondered if Duke could call it the Watergate Memorial Library. On Aug. 19 Trustee Emeritus Charles Murphy, a Washington lawyer who helped raise money for the Harry Truman Library, resigned to protest a plan that, he said, would inevitably result in a memorial to Nixon. Declared History Professor Richard Watson: "The question is, to whom are we erecting a monument? The answer is, to a President forced to resign to avoid being impeached. Mr. Nixon would have a continuing relationship...