Word: resignations
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Twenty-two GOP House members wrote President Clinton demanding that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown resign because of questions about his personal finances. The letter cited concerns raised in the news media about Brown's business dealings with a company owned by a Democratic Party fund-raiser. Brown's attorney, Reid Weingarten, denounced the attack as "extremely partisan" focusing "on allegations that were completely investigated (by the Justice Department). He was completely exonerated...
Grachev has been feuding with some of the army's top commanders and is trying to fire three of his deputy ministers, including General Boris Gromov, a popular hero of the war in Afghanistan. Gromov in turn has called on Grachev to resign. Such moves, like the plan to shift command of the army to the President, have been left hanging for now. But if Yeltsin is still in the market for scapegoats, that whole group of squabbling generals might fill the bill...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today said he would stay in office to face a no-confidence vote in parliament, rather than resign and plot a political comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry...
...Italian Cabinet official said today that beleaguered Prime Minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi will resign Wednesday because he doesn't have the parliamentary support to survive an imminent no-confidence vote. But Deputy Prime Minister Giuseppe Tatarella said the canny Berlusconi is planning the move to clear the way for new elections, staking his future on the belief that voters will sweep him back into office and silence his critics. "The government will resign tomorrow and tomorrow begins a long election campaign," Tatarella told state television, referring to Wednesday's parliamentary session. Berlusconi led his tenuous, three-coalition Forza...
...last week the 69-year-old workaholic Citron was forced to resign and instantly became perhaps the most hated man in Orange County. So enraged was one taxpayer at the mere sight of Citron's photo in a county office that he threatened to return with a gun and shoot it down. That outburst came shortly after Orange County, stunned by a $1.5 billion loss in the $20 billion investment pool that Citron managed, filed for bankruptcy protection in the largest municipal collapse in U.S. history. "This is the Hindenburg," said Joe Mysack, who follows the bond market as editor...