Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposal by U.N. mediators to allow his country to be divided into 10 autonomous regions. Negotiators stressed that boundaries would be drawn strictly on geographical and economic rather than ethnic criteria, with some functions preserved for the Sarajevo government. But because Izetbegovic has announced that he will resign by January, working out those crucial details will probably fall to someone else...
Gert had been an officer in the German military until 1980, when he opposed the use of nuclear missiles in Europe and was forced to resign. Although very soon after its founding there was a a split in the Green Party, Petra and Gert never gave up their fight for ecology and world peace. They would travel around Europe giving talks and attending conferences. Petra worked so hard, and for so many causes, that she would only sleep four hours per night...
Boskin increasingly clashed with Sununu over the President's sunny pronouncements on the economy. Sununu kept Boskin away from Bush until November 1991, when the economist threatened to resign in protest. Granted an audience, Boskin told the President that the economy was not recovering as quickly as it had from previous recessions because it was struggling under unprecedented burdens, including the huge debts left over from the Reagan era. Among the new hardships were the steep regulatory costs of the Clean Air Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Boskin later bluntly told Bush that he was unlikely...
...fine for accepting a $4 million illegal campaign contribution. But the Japanese public, stirred by the arrogance of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party power brokers, was furious that Kanemaru got off so lightly. Protests within his party, in business circles and in the press finally forced Kanemaru to resign his seat in the Diet and as chief of his faction, throwing the ruling party into disarray. Said he: "It was Shin Kanemaru who was wrong. There are no other bad guys...
...pressure over his handling of the Iraqgate affair, Barr named Frederick Lacey, 72, a formidable ex-prosecutor and federal judge from New Jersey, to serve as an in-house "independent" investigator. Still, congressional Democrats are demanding a court-appointed special prosecutor with full autonomy. Lacey insists that he would resign if Barr or the White House blocked him. (See related story on page...