Word: resignations
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...newspaper headline cried out: FATHER MURDER. Some of Germany's most experienced, cynical politicians broke down and wept. Helmut Kohl, who as Chancellor from 1982 to 1998 unified Germany, was forced to resign as honorary chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union, his reputation soiled by a spreading financial scandal. In the end the statesman who counted Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev among his peers was brought down by the likes of a French wheeler-dealer nicknamed Dede the Sardine...
...Germans contemplate their political future with the opposition Christian Democratic Union in meltdown mode over a campaign-funding scandal, it's not surprising that attention has begun to turn to possible alternative leaders. Wolfgang Schauble, 57, the party chairman, offered to resign last week but was overruled by the party leadership...
...hard-liners. The same division on the Unionist side may force Trimble's hand: "Trimble faced a mutiny in his own ranks over the IRA weapons issue last November, and only won 58 percent of the Unionist vote for staying in the peace process after promising that he would resign from the new government by February if the IRA hadn't started turning in weapons," says McAllister. And direct rule by London, after all, has traditionally been the core demand of Ulster Unionism. This time, then, it may be Adams' turn to face down the hard-liners on his side...
...constitutional crisis. If a Pope can see that coming, says Greeley, he should choose--or be persuaded--to retire. In which case, canon law is simple. The Pope is one of the world's last absolute rulers and answers only to God. All he has to say is, "I resign...
...capable of that if he had the impression that he was no longer able to lead the Church with authority." After Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz offered that opinion on German radio, a small earthquake of headlines went through Rome. GERMAN BISHOPS: THE POPE IS SICK, HE SHOULD RESIGN, declared one paper. WOJTILA STEP ASIDE, A STRONG POPE IS NEEDED, said another, using John Paul II's family name...