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First he's out, then he's back. On Friday it seemed as if Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, 47, had been ousted in a coup. Following a series of escalating strikes, army leaders forced Chavez to resign early Friday morning. By Sunday morning Chavez had been freed by his captors and said he was back in power...
...April 11 after Ch?vez-funded militiamen opened fire on 300,000 protesters backing a general strike, as they marched toward the presidential palace. Fifteen were killed. Generals in the armed forces began renouncing the President on television. The military high command took Ch?vez into custody and pressured him to resign. He refused, but the generals told the media he had stepped down. Washington chose to believe it. In a press conference the next day, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer acknowledged the transition government headed by Carmona, president of Venezuela?s largest business association...
...HarvardWatch, a monitoring group revived last year by members of PSLM, began putting pressure on Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65, a member of the Harvard Corporation and the chair of Enron’s Finance Committee, to resign from his post at Harvard...
...together with J.P. Morgan, the other investment bank involved) would have made $90 million and Dynegy’s shareholders would have been stuck with Enron’s debts. If these allegations are proved true, Rubin will be morally obliged to follow Winokur’s lead and resign from the Corporation—perhaps only days after joining it. This is hardly the fresh start that the Corporation needs...
...feeling was that he should not resign in the middle of [the controversy] when charges were really flying around,” the official said. “They didn’t want it to look like Harvard was deserting Winokur...