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...Sword resigned this summer from Serve Canada, aprivate youth service he had helped found inToronto, after news of the district attorney'sinvestigation broke. Hugh Silk '91, anotherfounder of the youth service, said staff membersdiscussed the matter with Sword, and the recentgraduate offered to resign...
...including the Muslim Brotherhood, refuses to endorse him. As election time approaches, Mubarak is talking vaguely about reform. In a recent speech he called for more cooperation "between all political forces" in order to "surround the abyss of terrorism and foil its plots." His supporters say he intends to resign his party post, in order to try to raise the presidency above politics, and to appoint new, more vigorous ministers to key economic posts in the Cabinet. If the economy continues to stagnate, however, the Islamists can count on the despair of the nation to send them regiments...
Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters, a confidant of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, took responsibility for mishandling the case and resigned in July, closely followed by the chief federal prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl. The head of the antiterrorism division, Rainer Hoffmeyer, has been sharply criticized and may be forced to resign. There have been so many demands for reforming or disbanding GSG-9 that Kohl paid a highly publicized visit to the unit to praise the dead officer and deplore "attempts to make a martyr of his murderer...
...down as a group, and David offered to resign, and we all decided that was the best thing," Silk said...
...this age of scandal, government officials more often quit in shame than resign over principle. So Washington took notice last week when Marshall Harris, a 32-year-old desk officer at the State Department, publicly left his post after reaching "level-10 frustration" at the Clinton Administration's erratic Bosnia policy. "I thought about resigning last month when Secretary Christopher said the U.S. was doing all it could," he says. "But the real kicker came when I found out we were putting heavy pressure on the Muslims to come to an agreement in Geneva, and using the threat of withholding...