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...area, the college and the club differ completely. The University of Virginia admits and is actively recruiting blacks; Farmington does not accept blacks as either members or guests. Last week, after members had voted overwhelmingly to continue the club's restrictive policies, Hereford was undergoing pressure to resign from Farmington...
According to Parker, several of the trustees who sided most strongly with her in the dispute have either resigned or have threatened to resign...
...Foreign Relations Committee, the Senator told his colleagues unhappily: "I am caught between women's rights and my respect for the Senate." Conceding that he had been sorely troubled by his wife's job, he later hinted to newsmen that he had asked her to resign. A family friend put it more bluntly: "He has given her an ultimatum." Would she quit? Marion "wants time, a quiet time, to think about her position," said Marvin Frankel, a top executive at Ruder & Finn, her public relations firm...
Teng was forced to resign his party posts, and for nearly seven years he was in effect a nonperson. Some Sinologists believe that Teng spent his years of obscurity reading the works of Mao, Marx and Lenin and visiting communes and factories "in order to gain empathy for workers and peasants." He was, however, spared hard physical labor out of consideration for his age. In April 1973, he suddenly reappeared at a banquet in Peking and was led to his seat by Mao's niece Wang Hai-jung, now a Vice Foreign Minister. By the following January, Teng had been...
...thought this was supposed to be my dance." Italian politics being what it is, the caricature contained more truth than humor. Making good on a long-hinted threat, the Socialist Party last week withdrew its parliamentary support for Moro's fragile coalition government, thereby forcing the Cabinet to resign. With Italy still deep in its worst postwar recession, the country faced the grim prospects of 1) living with another ineffectual (even minority) coalition government, or 2) elections that could give the well-organized Communist Party a share of power...