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...government could be doomed to the same fate that befell the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1974. Because Heath was unable to settle a strike by the militant mineworkers' union, his party lost its majority in a general election, and he was ultimately forced to resign...
...said General Alexander M. Haig, 54, in announcing last week that he will resign in June as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and retire from the U.S. Army. His sudden announcement to quit was something of a surprise to President Carter, who last fall had asked Haig to stay for another year in the NATO post he has held since 1974. It stirred speculation that he is getting ready to run for the Republican presidential nomination...
...meetings with the region's leaders and opinion makers, McGovern mostly listened. But when Rhodesia's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, asked McGovern what he would do to solve Rhodesia's problems, McGovern had a succinct answer: "Resign." Yet at a dinner party in Johannesburg, he startled his South African hosts by indicating that Smith's government in Rhodesia, if it continues to move toward an "all parties" conference of local leaders and carries through with a promised one-man, one-vote national election next spring with "credible" international observers, could expect the U.S. Senate to repeal the economic embargo imposed...
...said, under "existing conditions." He proceeded to describe Sunday's mass demonstration in Tehran as a "referendum in the streets" that would lead, he hoped, to a "true referendum to determine the kind of government Iran is to have." He did not say the Shah must first resign...
...Julie Fouquet, undergraduate representative on the ACSR, hereby resign. My reasons fall into three categories: 1) The illegitimacy of the ACSR as a group representing the Harvard community; 2) Problems within the ACSR, and 3) Lack of effectiveness of the ACSR...