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Haynes said a number of events lead up to her decision to resign, but one of the immediate causes was a controversy at last week's executive board meeting...
...Washington to send troops "is a terrible idea," said Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser--but reneging on that pledge "could immediately destroy NATO." (As if to underscore NATO's need for leadership, the alliance was left rudderless last week when corruption charges forced Secretary-General Willy Claes to resign...
...addition, one local newspaper reported at the time that Tien had threatened to resign if the Incentives were not instituted...
Amid some debate over its purpose and goals, the International Review (IR), which has seen a third of its editorial executive staff resign in the last year, elected a new executive board last night...
...appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Speaker on at least some of the complaints lodged against him since he ascended to power. This amounts to Gingrich being Gingriched: it was the detective work of an outside counsel that forced then Speaker of the House, Democrat Jim Wright, to resign in disgrace in 1989. The crusading reformer agitating for the appointment of an independent counsel was none other than Gingrich. As he argued at the time, "The rules normally applied by the Ethics Committee to an investigation of a typical member are insufficient in an investigation of the Speaker...