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...back." Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman sat in for most of the 25-minute meeting in the Oval Office. Nixon dislikes such confrontations. For months the President and other members of the Administration had subjected Hickel to almost systematic pressures and slights designed to make him feel sufficiently unwelcome to resign. Now Nixon, after the briefest pleasantries, came to the point: he wanted Hickel's resignation, "effective immediately." Hickel did not protest. He recited what he judged to be his accomplishments in his 22 months at Interior, then took a frosty leave. Later the White House summarily fired...
...choice will indicate to what extent the White House will control party affairs going into the next election. Bush, for instance, would demand a strong voice for the committee. Dole might be more willing to function simply as Nixon's spokesman. There was talk that John Mitchell might resign as Attorney General to assume overall command of Nixon's campaign above the party chairman, but that would seem illogical now; Mitchell can easily advise the President politically without leaving the Justice Department...
Only three months ago, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan seemed the hardest of Israel's hardliners. Angered by Egypt's movement of missiles along the Suez Canal after the Middle East ceasefire began, Dayan adopted a rocklike stance. He would resign, he said, if Israeli United Nations Ambassador Josef Tekoah were allowed to continue peace discussions with U.N. Mediator Gunnar V. Jarring while the missiles were still in the canal zone...
...staged the coup by quietly dispatching his intelligence agents to arrest President Noureddine Atassi and General Salah Jadid, who had been the strongman of Syria's extremist Baathist party. The more moderate Assad, who apparently moved to get Jadid before Jadid could get him, had been ordered to resign as Defense Minister by the Baathist congress. If he can keep control of the government, Assad might not only cooperate with the Cairo government, which the radical Baathists dislike, but might also amend Syria's adamant stance against peace with Israel...
THERE IS something magical about the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the way it seems to rise, Phoenix-like, out of its own ashes. The first chairs may graduate, the woodwinds resign, the bloodless old men on the Faculty Council hold back academic credit, but the HRO goes on, always attempting more ambitious projects...