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After the tough quizzing by Congress, Shultz could take comfort in the fact that one elected official remained solidly on his side. At his press conference Wednesday night, the President was asked whether Shultz had failed in Lebanon and should resign. Said Reagan: "I have seen that talk, and I think it's disgraceful. He has done a splendid...
Syria rejected the plan, and some of Gemayel's Lebanese enemies dismissed it as too little, too late. In Damascus, Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt insisted that Gemayel must not only resign but be put on trial for "crimes against the Lebanese people." On the other hand, Syria, which is helping to arm Gemayel's foes, is believed amenable to letting the President stay on, and it invited a revised plan which the Saudis proposed and conveyed to Beirut. If Gemayel does cling to office, it may be as the figurehead leader of a drastically reshaped government heavily influenced...
...former state Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor is best known for his decision to resign from his office as U.S. Attorney General under former President Richard M. Nixon rather than comply with Nixon's order to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald...
...case, Wörner invited to Bonn a Swiss homosexual actor who claimed to have evidence of misconduct by Kiessling. The "evidence" was unpersuasive. Moreover, the Defense Minister's methods of supporting his accusations seemed both unsavory and absurd. There were rumors that he would have to resign...
...most vociferous warnings came from Walid Jumblatt, 36, the mercurial, Syrian-supported Druze leader, who has consistently blocked all attempts at a ceasefire. Against the noisy backdrop of almost daily artillery battles between the Lebanese Army and Druze militiamen, Jumblatt called for the resignation of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel's government. Then he said that he had meant the Gemayel Cabinet but not the President. Still later, he insisted that he had been right the first time, and that Gemayel himself should resign. "We will not take part in any government or format with President Gemayel," he declared...