Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After months of resisting pressure to resign, fbi Director William Sessions said he would leave only if President Clinton fired him; Clinton obliged and promptly nominated U.S. District Judge Louis Freeh for the position. A former fbi agent, Freeh, 43, first made a name for himself as a federal prosecutor in New York City, where he helped obtain the 1987 convictions of a Mafia drug- dealing ring in the Pizza Connection cases...
...General Carl Mundy, passed out antigay video tapes at meetings. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell, while talking cooperation with the White House, instigated behind-the-scenes opposition to the President. In a speech in Annapolis, he had told sailors he would understand if they chose to resign in the event that they ultimately disagreed with the President's decision...
Sessions publicly insists that he will not resign, but in private he gives the White House signals that he will do so under certain conditions. At one time he said he wanted to stay in office until the end of 1993, thereby increasing his pension income $5,000 a year. Sessions told Justice officials he would resign once his successor is confirmed by the Senate, a move that would deny his nemesis Clarke a shot at being interim director. In an interview with TIME last Friday, Reno was poker-faced on Sessions even as other members of the Administration were...
...prominent figures in politics and industry. "There will be some big scandals. Some names are well known," says a Bundestag source. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in power since well before unification, may have something to worry about: 19 years ago, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was forced to resign after just one spy was discovered in his chancellery...
...Matrix Churchill, Iraq's main U.S. purchasing agent, which was gathering materiel for projects like the infamous Supergun. She says she warned company officers that Kennametal was not following export regulations, and questioned other company practices. Within nine months of being hired, she was asked by her superiors to resign for being "uncooperative." Unable to find a new job, Gasior moved back into her parents' suburban Pittsburgh home...