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Faced with political realities, Carter backed away from a plan to have independent citizen panels nominate federal trial judges and prosecutors. One result in New Jersey and Michigan: two superb Republican U.S. attorneys who refused to resign were unceremoniously forced out of office. The choice of U.S. attorneys and district judges has long been controlled by U.S. Senators and state politics. But U.S. circuit courts usually cover several states, and appointments to them have less often been the absolute preserve of a Senator or Representative. So when Carter set up 13 panels around the country to pick appellate judges...
DIED. Dr. Manouchehr Eghbal, 68, former Premier of Iran and chairman of the National Iranian Oil Co.; of a heart attack; in Ellahiyem, Iran. Named Premier in 1957, Eghbal was forced to resign three years later over charges that a parliamentary election had been rigged. While he was in power, Eghbal was a favorite of the Shah, whose policies he vigorously upheld...
Elizabeth W. Vorenberg and James Vorenberg '50 announced Saturday that they will resign their positions as co-masters of Dunster House at the end of this academic year...
...writer of each of Nixon's major Watergate addresses, Raymond Price probably received one of the closest looks of any White House insiders at the defense Nixon attempted to weave. In November 1973, Price writes in With Nixon, the speechwriter made an abortive effort to resign his White House position because of doubts about the Watergate case that were "not so much specific as they were a general concern...that there was more than Nixon had admitted to, more than I had been told...
...Force ruling reflects a progressivism that is not shared by the older services. Spokesmen at both the Army and Navy academies insist they have no intention of changing their policies. They argue that they already guarantee equality, if not exactly protection, by requiring anyone, man or woman, to resign if he or she is responsible for a pregnancy. They add that the issue is, well, academic. Since the three service academies first admitted women in early 1976, only one woman has resigned-from the Air Force Academy-because she was expecting a baby. Two men quit the Naval Academy this...