Word: resignations
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...Jerusalem Olmert Bows Out In a surprise announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would not seek re-election and would step down after his party's Sept. 17 leadership vote. Olmert, currently under two separate criminal investigations over allegations of corruption, had already vowed to resign if charged. The news clears the way for a new government but will probably delay progress on Israeli-Palestinian relations...
...Fatah in the West Bank too, if not for President Abbas's movement enjoying the de facto protection of the Israelis. And Olmert's rivals also smell blood. Tzipi Livni, his Foreign Minister and rival within the Kadima Party, called once again on Tuesday for the Prime Minister to resign, and Defense Secretary Ehud Barak, leader of the Labor Party, may join the pressure for Olmert to take the honorable way out. Regardless of his preferences, Olmert may have to resign anyway if he is indicted on corruption charges alleging that he accepted cash from a U.S. businessman and doubled...
...those cases. Sofia's central cemetery is dotted with marble monuments engraved with life-size portraits of underworld figures known by sinister names like the Doctor, the Russian or the Godfather. Senior government officials have leaked files to mafia suspects and the interior minister himself had to resign after he was found consorting with two dubious businessmen. Ten Bulgarian MPs were stripped of immunity from prosecution last year because of alleged involvement in corruption...
...America's greatest writers; of liver cancer; in Geneva. Borges was an original: his poetry was somber and elegaic, his short stories at once fantastical and grittily realistic--most notably the mystery-like ''fictions,'' reminiscent of Kafka and Poe. The 1973 return of Dictator Juan Peron prompted him to resign as director of the National Library in his native Buenos Aires. Far from a handicap, being blind, he said, ''leaves the mind free to explore the depths and heights of human imagination...
...secrets to Cuba. Most damning, Noriega, who as commander of Panama's armed forces essentially runs the country, was linked to the September 1985 murder of Dr. Hugo Spadafora, a leading critic of the Panamanian army. It is widely believed that Noriega forced Panamanian President Nicolas Ardito Barletta to resign after Barletta signaled his intention to investigate Spadafora's murder. Barletta's successor, Eric Arturo Delvalle, quickly came to Noriega's defense. Delvalle told reporters that all charges against the army chief had emanated from ''bad Panamanians involved in a conspiracy.'' Noriega, who stood at the President's side, charged...