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In 1998, Salim Saleh resigned from his post as presidential advisor, following allegations that Greenland Investments, a company in which he was a major stakeholder, had used the Malaysian company, Westmont, to illegally purchase shares in Uganda's largest bank, the now defunct Uganda Commercial Bank ( UCB ).
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After the election of then-commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces Émile Lahoud as President in 1998 following Hrawi's extended term as President, Salim al-Hoss again served as Prime Minister.
Salim fled to Singapore during the May 1998 riots, when a mob burned his Jakarta home ; his son remained to rebuild the Salim Group.
Fadhil fled Nairobi to Karachi on 2 August 1998, on the same airliner as Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan.
In 1998, Salim Saleh's company purchased helicopters for the army, for which he received a commission of $ 800, 000.
1998 and Saleh
Referring to his appointment by Osama bin Laden and praising his predecessor, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, killed by US special forces in mid-September, Mohammed acknowledged his role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 and resigned
Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.
As a result, Switzer resigned as head coach in January 1998 and former Steelers offensive coordinator Chan Gailey was hired to take his place.
He resigned following investigations into his financial activities and his successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament — the 1998 World Cup — in which England were eliminated in the second round again by Argentina and again on penalties ( after a 2 – 2 draw ).
Leyland resigned as manager in October 1998, and was replaced by John Boles.
Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.
Many regarded this as a second time Syria had pressured Lebanon's Parliament to amend the constitution in a way that favored Lahoud ( the first allowing for his election in 1998 immediately after he had resigned as commander-in-chief of the LAF.
Gérard Houllier was appointed co-manager in the 1998 – 99 season and became the sole manager in November 1998 after Evans resigned.
In June 2008 Goodall confirmed that she had resigned the presidency of the organisation which she had held since 1998, citing her busy schedule and explaining, " I just don't have time for them.
Helmut Kohl served as chairman until the party's electoral defeat in 1998, when he was succeeded by Wolfgang Schäuble ; Schäuble resigned in early 2000 as a result of a party financing scandal and was replaced by Angela Merkel, who remains the leader of the CDU to this day.
In July 1998, Liberal MP Peter McLellan, Member for Frankston East, resigned from the party in protest over alleged corrupt Liberal Party Senate preselection, changes to WorkCover and the auditor-general ’ s office.
In 1998, Denis Halliday, a United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, resigned his post in Iraq, describing the effects of his own organisation's sanctions as genocide.
Gerry Francis returned in 1998, however the 2000 – 2001 season proved to be a disaster, and Francis resigned in early 2001.
No one has been recalled so far, but one representative, Paul Reitsma, resigned in 1998 when it looked as if the petition to recall him would have enough signatures to spur a recall election.
In 1998, accused of financial impropriety, he resigned as a cabinet minister.
However, he had not declared the loan in the Register of Members ' Interests, and resigned on 23 December 1998.
He served for five years in the Cabinet, firstly as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003, when he resigned, citing a lack of balance with his family life, before briefly rejoining it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour's 2005 re-election campaign.
In Quebec, the Liberal Party benefited from the collapse of support for the Progressive Conservative Party, after the PCs ' popular Québécois leader Jean Charest had resigned in 1998 and was replaced by former Prime Minister Joe Clark who was unpopular in Quebec which resulted in three PC members from Quebec defecting to join the Liberal Party prior to the election.
Rae resigned from the New Democratic Party in 1998 due to his appointment to the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
Suharto resigned under public pressure in May 1998 and Vice President B. J. Habibie was elevated in his place.
However, Todd Hunter, who served as National Coordinator since February 1994 and as acting Director of the Vineyard at the time of Wimber's death, became the National Director in January 1998 and served in that capacity until he resigned in May 2000.
He resigned his job as a bodyguard on 19 May 1998.
Kosich resigned in 1998 and was replaced by chairman Brent Ballantyne.
In 1998, George Kosich resigned as chairman of the board and was succeeded by Brent Ballantyne, under whom the company was taken public for the first time in its history, issuing 11. 7 million common shares at $ 15 each, while the Eaton family retained control with a 51 percent stake.
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The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.
As a compromise, the MCC commissioned a trophy in the form of a larger replica of the urn in Waterford Crystal to award to the winning team of each series from 1998 – 99.
A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.
Alan Parsons Live Project, June 1998 ( distinct from The Alan Parsons Project live ).
She inherited it from her elder sister Patricia in 1998.
* " Hanging By His Hair " from the 1998 WORMWOOD album by The Residents recounts Absalom's defiance and death.
In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.
A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31 % of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name = Ernst_Cassileth > Alternative medicine varies from country to country.
The park contains a bench for each of the victims, arranged according to their year of birth, ranging from 1930 ( age 71 ) to 1998 ( age 3 ).
Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the valuable statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain.
This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.
Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the bronze and marble statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain ( or, actually, acid snow )
* Acid Rain: A Continuing National Tragedy-a report from The Adirondack Council on acid rain in the Adirondack region ( 1998 )
The administration then launched a four-day bombing campaign named Operation Desert Fox, lasting from December 16 to December 19, 1998.
In 1998, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison called Clinton " the first Black president ", saying, " Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas ".
Masire retired from office in 1998.
Mobile phone technology has skyrocketed in Burkina Faso in the last decade, growing from 2, 700 subscribers in 1998 to 398, 000 in 2004.
At its inception in 1998, the Bluetooth SIG was primarily run by a staff effectively seconded from its member companies.
In 1998 the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group published a phylogeny of flowering plants based on an analysis of DNA sequences from most families of flowering plants.
* Endicott, Stephen and Edward Hagerman, The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, Indiana University Press ( 1998 ).
Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.
The passenger-miles figure, after being flat from 1965 – 1995, surpassed the 1947 figure for the first time in 1998 and continues to rise steeply.
The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.
* Transfer of the Milwaukee Brewers from the American League to the National League ( 1998 )
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