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...crime. This administration certainly outdid his record with its influence-peddling officials, ideologues-gone-astray, and just plain crooks--from Michael Deaver, Lyn Nofziger, and Edwin Meese to Oliver North, John Poindexter, and William Casey to Anne Gorsuch, Rita Lavelle, and Raymond Donovan. Carter got Lance to resign, even after he was found innocent, while Reagan ignored rampant corruption...
Appalled by the bank's condition, federal regulators asked Chairman Gerald Fronterhouse to resign. His replacement is Albert Casey, 68, who steered once troubled American Airlines back on course as chairman from 1974 to 1985. American had been laden with many layers of unnecessary staff and subsidiaries. Says Casey: "I fired them all and cleaned them out." He may have to be as ruthless at First RepublicBank...
Byrd's graceful exit gives the Democrats a chance to choose a new majority leader, one who may have to counter another four years of a Republican White House by setting a more vigorous style of leadership in Congress. Anticipating that Byrd would resign or be pushed aside, Senators Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, George Mitchell of Maine and J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana have been jockeying behind the scenes since last year...
...announcement reflected intense pressure on Speakes to resign as head of communications at the Wall Street investment giant because of disclosures in his forthcoming book on his tenure as White House spokesman. In the book he said he had attributed to Reagan comments the president never made...
...rally, soldiers and police burst into the lobby of the Marriott Caesar Park Hotel and seized 20 opposition leaders, who had scheduled a news conference, and twelve foreign journalists, including five Americans. Many were beaten as they were led away. Ignoring Roman Catholic Church leaders who urged him to resign, Noriega later told a conference of delegates from Latin American and Caribbean countries that he and the region were victims of U.S. aggression...