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Many of the major policies that will give a pair of giant pandas, then resigned
Our advice to politicians: be afraid pair of pandas, they are a sign of the sunset of your political career!
This is one of the strangest coincidences in history - in 1970 four senior politicians have resigned immediately after they were presented with a pair of pandas. For example, Richard Nixon got a couple in 1972, these were the cubs Ling and Xing. Some time later, Nixon was forced to resign due to the Watergate.
Next was Edward Heath, British Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974-th. After the gifts of pandas Jia Jing Hit and suddenly decided to end his political career by refusing re-elected for a second term 2, and the following year resigned as leader of the Conservative Party.
Panda Lan and Kang "ruined" his career, Prime Minister of Japan, Kakuei Tanaka: after they were given, it was found out that Tanaka scored bribes in 1, 8 million dollars from US corporations, which meant his immediate resignation from his post. < br />
The last "victim" of a supernatural relationship between pandas and political career was Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld zur from the Netherlands. Bernhard was one of the founders of the World Wildlife Fund, and visited a lot of time working in various public organizations. In 1976 the Fund was filmed "very important panda" privlёkshy public attention to the danger of extinction of this species. And later in the same year the prince was convicted of taking bribes from the company "Lockheed", thus was forced to abandon after a scandal from most of their positions and, in fact, end up political activities.
via factroom.ru
This is one of the strangest coincidences in history - in 1970 four senior politicians have resigned immediately after they were presented with a pair of pandas. For example, Richard Nixon got a couple in 1972, these were the cubs Ling and Xing. Some time later, Nixon was forced to resign due to the Watergate.
Next was Edward Heath, British Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974-th. After the gifts of pandas Jia Jing Hit and suddenly decided to end his political career by refusing re-elected for a second term 2, and the following year resigned as leader of the Conservative Party.
Panda Lan and Kang "ruined" his career, Prime Minister of Japan, Kakuei Tanaka: after they were given, it was found out that Tanaka scored bribes in 1, 8 million dollars from US corporations, which meant his immediate resignation from his post. < br />
The last "victim" of a supernatural relationship between pandas and political career was Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld zur from the Netherlands. Bernhard was one of the founders of the World Wildlife Fund, and visited a lot of time working in various public organizations. In 1976 the Fund was filmed "very important panda" privlёkshy public attention to the danger of extinction of this species. And later in the same year the prince was convicted of taking bribes from the company "Lockheed", thus was forced to abandon after a scandal from most of their positions and, in fact, end up political activities.
via factroom.ru
