Word: resignment
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...around the red-brown walls of the Kremlin. Where is Konstantin Chernenko, who was last seen on Dec. 27, handing out awards at a televised ceremony? How sick is he? Is the frail Soviet party leader and President, who suffers from a pulmonary disorder, dying? Is he about to resign? Above all, who will succeed...
Lomeiko specifically knocked down speculation that Chernenko might resign at a Central Committee meeting, possibly next month. When Loory asked whether Chernenko was seriously ill, Lomeiko denied it point-blank. Said he: "All Politburo members are entitled to a monthlong winter vacation, and the General Secretary is taking his." Where? Somewhere outside Moscow...
...Sharon, who was forced to resign as Defense Minister after the official Israeli report on the massacre, the trial provided a forum to refurbish his reputation at home and abroad. Sharon has never made any secret of his desire to become Israel's Prime Minister; the morning after the trial ended, he said on NBC-TV's Today Show that "I believe that one day I'll try to do that." By persuading the jury that the paragraph was false, Sharon has helped his cause, even though he lost the case...
...Marxist- led Sandinista government in defiance of canon law, which prohibits priests from holding public office. One of the priests was expelled from the Society of Jesus in December; the other three priests were forbidden in January by the Vatican to perform their sacerdotal duties if they did not resign in two weeks. Insists Fernando Cardenal Martinez, the former Jesuit and Nicaragua's Education Minister: "There is no basic religious problem between the church and the revolution. What exists is a political confrontation...
...daily Le Matin. The paper announced that Hanon, 53, would soon be replaced by Georges Besse, 57, chairman of the Pechiney state-owned aluminum conglomerate. Shocked and angry, Hanon caught the next Concorde back to Paris. Summoned to Premier Laurent Fabius' office early last week, Hanon was forced to resign. Two days later the French Cabinet confirmed Besse's appointment...