Word: resignations
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...within two weeks. Prosecutors alleged that Jäätteenmäki used secret documents to claim that then Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen had compromised Finland's neutrality by tacitly supporting the war. After narrowly winning the election last March, Jäätteenmäki was forced to resign three months later. On Thin Ice NORTH POLE Russia plucked to safety 12 of its scientists stranded on a disintegrating ice floe 700 km from Norway's Spitzbergen island in a high-risk helicopter rescue mission. Most of the structures of the North Pole-32 research station sank when...
Will Europe ever come up with the money it needs to plug its brain drain in science and technology? In France, scientists are sick of waiting - so this week, hundreds of research directors are planning to resign from their administrative duties to protest chronic underfunding and understaffing...
...reviled as a corrupt autocrat (after once being revered as the hope of Haiti?s poor); still, his supporters in Haiti and the U.S. were challenging how his exit was done and rumors quickly spread that the failed leader perhaps did not leave under his own volition. Did he resign, or was he, as he began insisting Monday from the Central African Republic, abducted by his foes and forced to leave the island...
...Rovira of the Republican Left party, and two ETA leaders in Perpignan, France. (ETA has killed more than 800 people throughout Spain over the past three decades, more than 50 of them in Catalonia.) Carod-Rovira denies negotiating for a cease-fire - or anything else - but was forced to resign as Maragall's deputy after news of the meeting was leaked to the press. The ETA statement also hurts Maragall's national counterpart, Socialist leader and presidential candidate José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, right before the March 14 general election...
...added that if his official duty ever came into conflict with his religious obligations, he would resign from office. Pryor gave the laws of Nazi Germany as an example of legal institutions that his religion would not allow him to enforce...