Word: resignation
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...accepted drug money during his 1994 campaign, President Ernesto Samper Pizano rejected calls to step down and suggested a referendum to let the people decide his fate. Critics denounced the plan as costly and having the potential to incite a civil war. Students and veterans demanded that Samper resign after his ex-campaign manager said the President had known the Cali cartel was funding his election bid with millions of dollars. Former campaign treasurer Santiago Medina fueled their anger by saying Samper personally gave the order to distribute some $400,000 of drug money for his campaign...
...family I have been put on notice: perform or resign. Recent gains by Islamic fundamentalists in Turkish elections do not bode well for oddball investors in Turkish equities...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Rep. William Clinger, one of the principal Repubicans in Congress investigating the White House Travel Office scandal, said Monday that he would resign, in part to continue his job for months without the distractions of campaigning. "I've been here 18 years, and it's probably six or eight years longer than I intended to stay initially," said the nine-term Pennsylvanian, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Congress' primary investigative panel. The 66-year-old Clinger is the third House committee chairman and the 12th House Republican to announce plans to retire or seek...
...soap-opera saga that has sent her skyrocketing political career into the tailspin of a financial and marital scandal. A tearful Waldholtz claimed she was conned by her husband Joe, who she said improperly manipulated both their personal finances and her 1994 campaign funds. Waldholtz insisted she would not resign, though only 39% of surveyed Utah voters believed her version of events...
Confirming earlier reports, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke has announced his intention to resign his post early next year. Says TIME's Mark Thompson: "He's leaving on a high note, and frankly, he's leaving before we run into any real trouble keeping the peace." In other developments, Tony Blankley, press secretary to Newt Gingrich, is going to be considerably busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. In Sarajevo, American military officials report that the Bosnian Serb military...