Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lynch had been expected to resign, but not quite so soon. He wanted to give his successor time to prepare for the next election. However, last week a Fianna Fáil member raised a question in Parliament about the party's defeat in two November by-elections in Lynch's native County Cork. That was the second humiliation this year: in June, Fianna Fáil was trounced in an election of delegates to the European Parliament. These reversals came on top of a number of economic woes that also undermined Lynch: high inflation (14%), soaring interest...
...offer of immunity could induce Blunt to talk. The offer was made, Thatcher said. Blunt confessed and "subsequently provided useful information about Russian intelligence activities." The Queen's private secretary was informed that Blunt had been a Soviet spy, but Blunt was neither exposed nor required to resign as curator. Thatcher's explanation: the position was unpaid, "it carried with it no access to classified information and no risk to security, and the security authorities thought it desirable not to put at risk his cooperation...
West Bank mayors resign over losing one of their...
...tried to resign several times after taking office last February, because it was increasingly clear that Khomeini and his followers, not the government, ruled Iran...
...margin, Ohira owed his victory to the support of a conservative breakaway party, the New Liberal Club. The win did little to enhance Ohira's stature, either in the Diet or in his own party. Fumed one L.D.P. member: "At first, I didn't think he should resign, but later I decided he should-not because of the election, but because he made our party look so damn foolish...