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...Branch behind him, evidently saw no salt whatever in Archie Cox. When the president refused a Circuit Court order to hand over nine tapes to Judge John J. Sirica and ordered Cox "to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain the tapes," he expected Cox would quietly resign as he had when Truman crossed...
...Cambodia. His appointment as successor to Melvin Laird was announced before the carpet-bombing of Hanoi which began in December 1972. Richardson did not refuse that December to become Secretary of Defense. At no time did he make any public statement to protest the terror. He did not resign in February rather than help direct the indiscriminate bombing of Cambodian homes, farms and villages. If Richardson secretly opposed such devastation, he lacked the courage to act on his conviction. If he supported the bombing--as his direction of the American war effort at the time suggests--his act of integrity...
Barbara M. Solomon will resign as assistant dean of the College in order to teach full time, and her responsibilities as secretary of Special Studies and secretary to the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) will be divided temporarily while Pipkin decides how to reapportion them permanently. Judith B. Walzer, director of the Office of Women's Education, will oversee the CUE, while David A. Harnett, secretary to the Faculty, will take over Solomon's Special Studies responsibilities...
Whitlock, Leahy and Kiely will all remain in their present jobs next year, although Kiely has said he will probably resign his deanship when his three-year contract expires at the end of next year. Several sources speculated last week that after Kiely leaves his post, Rosovsky will not refill...
Tranquillity has returned to most U.S. campuses, but Ohio University at Athens stands out as a troubled exception. In the past month alone, the campus has been rocked by a strike of student workers, two successive nights of rioting, and demands that University President Claude R. Sowle resign. Last week the progressive young president decided that he had had enough. In a terse statement of resignation, he declared that he could "no longer ask myself or my family to serve the university under such insane conditions...