Word: resigns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...message. Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 55, had waited for game's end to take to the air waves and declare another stunning upset-his own. Rabin announced to the country that he would not lead his ruling Labor Party in the May 17 elections -and that he wanted to resign immediately. His reason: he and his wife Leah had held two U.S. bank accounts in violation of Israeli law, and their value was far higher than the couple had earlier admitted...
...power. Said the English-language Jerusalem Post: "He has done a service to the nation by his act. It will help clarify the standards of rectitude that the nation expects from its public officials." Rabin, however, left his government in a constitutional and political mess. Technically, he could not resign; that is against Israeli law. When he called for elections last December, Rabin became head of a caretaker government; now he cannot abdicate that responsibility. Explained an Israeli legal expert: "Even if the government allowed Rabin to take a 'vacation'-which would be unprecedented-he would still carry...
...British Prime Minister James Callaghan narrowly averted a defeat in Commons that would have forced him to resign and call new elections. Just minutes before facing a no-confidence vote demanded by Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher (TIME, March 28), Callaghan concluded a deal with the Liberal Party's David Steel, thus assuring the Labor government's survival; this actually left the P.M. in a stronger parliamentary position than he has enjoyed for months. The price that Steel extracted was a Liberal voice in the government's legislative program in order to push such Liberal pet policies...
...withdrawn, stoically advising her ministers that if she had lost, she had lost. Before dawn the next morning she asked the Acting President to lift the state of emergency. Two hours later she summoned her ministers, many of whom had also been defeated, and told them she would resign...
...Governor Castro's election campaign. While serving as an Arizona state highway commissioner in 1942, he was arrested for ordering a state-owned truck engine installed in one of his own vehicles. He was subsequently acquitted. By recalling the incident in a newspaper article, Bolles forced Marley to resign from a coveted seat on the state racing commission. For this reason, Adamson was told by the land developer, Marley wanted Bolles killed. So far, Marley, who divides his time between homes in Arizona and Mexico, has not been arrested because of lack of evidence. The state is hoping that...