Word: resignment
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...have an exquisite sense of when the breaking point is near, suddenly became conciliatory. He said that he would present these "serious proposals" to his Cabinet. If it supported them, he added, they would be sent to the Knesset. And if the proposals were defeated there, his government would resign. Begin, in fact, was almost effusive as he bade Carter farewell at Ben-Gurion. Said he: "You came on the highest mission in humanity, for peace, and you have succeeded." Then he added: "Now, of course, it is the turn of Egypt...
...when a close personal aide, Günter Guillaume, was arrested as a Communist spy. Not only had Guillaume passed on NATO secrets to East Germany, but he had also sabotaged Brandt personally by collecting evidence of indiscretions in the Chancellor's private life. Brandt was forced to resign. Guillaume was later sentenced to 13 years in prison for espionage...
Among the more vulnerable items was clearly Bazargan, the gentle, democratic-minded engineer-politician who had been the chief adviser on oil matters to Iran's last revolutionary leader, Mohammed Mossadegh. Stung by Khomeini's diatribe, Bazargan went to Qum with an offer to resign. After some deliberation, Khomeini refused the resignation and pledged greater support for the government. But if that promise was not kept and Bazargan were to quit, authority in Iran would apparently rest solely with the Komiteh, the mullahs and other fervent Shi'ites whose grab for power has literally pulled the Persian...
...aftermath of this fall's bloodshed, but they failed in the face of Somoza's intransigence. The State Department claims that American mediation efforts are "suspended," not finished. The plebescite mediators had scheduled for February 18th never materialized, however, and Somoza appears as unlikely as ever to resign--the first condition for an end to violence by the opposition...
...revolution. "They persecute us, they arrest people, they issue orders, they oppose our appointments," Bazargan said, speaking with the indignation with which he formerly criticized the Shah. "They have turned my day into night." If the Komiteh is not curbed, he warned, "we would have no alternative but to resign...