Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then he clashed with De Gaulle over the scheduled execution of a leader in the Algerian generals' putsch. De Gaulle gave in, granting clemency, when Pompidou threatened to resign. From then on, Pompidou determined to venture farther away from De Gaulle's towering shadow. In 1967, he ordered most of his government, himself included, to enter Assembly elections; elected from his native Auvergne, he finally gained a local power base...
...backing dwindled rapidly and his depression deepened, Ky slipped away to the seacoast city of Nha Trang, where he paced up and down the beaches, lost in thought. He returned to Saigon briefly last week, but only for a private goodbye to outgoing U.S. Commander William Westmoreland and to resign as head of the recently instituted Civil Defense Committee. "I'm going fishing," he snapped to a palace official, and with that he returned to Nha Trang and isolation...
Nguyen Cao Ky is more likely to attempt a coup than to resign, although neither course seems very likely at the moment. He probably believes that time is his best ally. He wants to change his image, move away from the Americans, and mold a thoroughly nationalist look designed to appeal to the masses and the younger generation; in short, to transform the flashy, daredevil flyboy into a sort of Uncle Nguyen-an antiCommunist, anti-Western and South Vietnamese patriot...
LIKE HIS predecessors, Ford remains an adademic in an administrative role, teaching almost his full share of undergraduate and graduate courses each year and supervising a number of dissertations. When he steps down as Dean after two more years--and he does plan to resign his position when Pusey retires at 65--he will probably return to fulltime teaching. "A new president should not have an inherited dean, and anyway, one man should not fill the position for much more than seven or eight years because he gets increasingly bogged down in outside commitments," Ford says...
King learned of the decision one morning while he was shaving. A letter arrived asking him to resign. "I said certainly not," he recalled on TV as he discussed the episode. "If I do, it will look as if I was caught with my hand in the till." Expecting his refusal, the board then dismissed him outright. He was not exactly penitent. "I think it is interesting," he remarked, "that the Daily Mirror under Mr. Cudlipp will now presumably switch over support to the Labor Party just in time to nail the flag to the mast of the ship...