Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous challenger for Packwood's seat, former state supreme court justice Betty Roberts, derided the implication that alcohol had caused the Senator's misbehavior as "an insult to the victims and the voters of Oregon. I think the only proper step for him to take now is to resign." Oregon Democrats were organizing a recall effort, even though legal experts say the state's law on $ recall does not apply to members of Congress...
...display of the Vukovar photographs now hangs in the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade. Applied art indeed. They depict slaughters of amazing awfulness, performed with a conscienceless ingenuity that makes a man want to resign from the human race. Here, for example, we see an instrument that looks like a tuning fork, but with the prongs more widely spaced, about 3 1/2 inches apart. A local trademark is to gouge out both eyes. Hence this handy device. Studies in the Balkan Department of Comparative Atrocity...
...Packwood is unlikely to resign. The success of a recall vote is dubious unless new accusations continue to appear. He maintains that now, "he gets it." Too bad we're stuck with...
...federal appeals court ruled that former President Richard M. Nixon must be compensated for the government's 1974 seizure of presidential papers and tapes after the Watergate scandal forced him to resign. Although the dollar amount hasn't been determined, some reports estimate it could run into the millions. Ultimately the American taxpayer will foot the bill. An editorial in the New York Times called the court's decision "ludicrous" and said the ruling "adds injury to insult." A spokesperson for Nixon says all the money will go to the Nixon Library and to pay Nixon's legal fees...
...that he ever will. The scandal over Diana's secretly taped phone coos to a friend has been overshadowed by reports of a steamy conversation between Prince Charles and a longtime companion. And now, in what may be the severest blow of all, Diana and Charles seem ready to resign themselves to living separate lives, maintaining their marriage in name only...