Word: resignment
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...still the majority party of the working class, torn by tensions ignored in the American press between radicals faithful to the party's Marxist program and conservatives. The party's rightward tilt is unmistakable, exemplified by its July decision to resign from the Goncalves cabinet over workers' seizures of Republica, the party's newspaper, and Renascenza, the Church's radio station. While the PSP and the liberal press characterized the seizures as Communist plots to suppress "free speech", few involved workers--only two at Republica--were Communist Party (PCP) members...
...message turned out to be more startling than soothing: the FBI chief said that recently he himself had been pushed to the brink of resignation by the congressional investigations. Although details were not divulged, one committee apparently had demanded evidence that Kelley thought should not be handed over. Said a participant at the FBI meeting: "Kelley has told us in the past that he would resign if he were forced to comply with demands that he considered unreasonable. Well, he said that a few weeks ago he felt he was at that point. But he didn't quit because...
...night meetings, military feints, rumors of a coup or even a civil war -nothing seemed able to stir Portugal from its state of near-paralysis. For most of last week, as overwhelming majorities of the military and the public called for him to resign, pro-Communist Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves hung on, issuing dark warnings that if he were ousted, the Communist Party's armed militia would swing into action...
Moderate Group. The Communists and their man in the troika, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, were very much on the defensive. Gonçalves was clinging desperately to his position, ignoring demands that he resign. But the cabal of officers intent upon ousting him has generated such impressive support that Gonçalves' days seemed numbered. Melo Antunes' moderate manifesto, with its call for a gradual, pluralistic approach to socialism, had won the backing of a majority in the armed forces -some estimates went as high as 85%. Just about every officer of any consequence...
...Gomes acknowledged privately that the Communist-leaning Gonçalves had been irredeemably discredited. In the course of a 2½-hour meeting at Belem Palace, Costa Gomes reportedly asked Socialist Leader Mário Soares for a six weeks' grace period to arrange Gonçalves' resignation and restore political parties to representation in the government. Soares rejected the proposal. Soon afterward, he was backed by 7,000 Socialists who marched on Belem Palace shouting "Vasco must resign...