ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Tuesday, January 16, 1996 TAG: 9601160070
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Illness brings Papandreou resignation
ATHENS, Greece - Premier Andreas Papandreou resigned Monday after nearly two months in the hospital, at last making way for his Socialist Party to elect a new premier and resolve Greece's worsening leadership crisis.
For weeks, doctors had acknowledged what Papandreou, 76, had not: Even if he does come off a life-support system, he will never recover well enough to handle the duties of his office.
- Associated Press
Car crash kills king of Lesotho, Africa
MASERU, Lesotho - King Moshoeshoe II, a resilient leader who twice regained his throne after being deposed, died Monday when his car plunged over an embankment. He was 57.
His death came just as this southern African country appeared to be overcoming the turbulence that has marked its politics since gaining independence from Britain in 1966.
- Associated Press
Gorbachev leans toward election run
PARIS - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the more he thinks about it, the more he's likely to run in Russia's June presidential election.
``It is an issue that I examine all the time. I think about it all the time, and I am leaning increasingly towards a positive decision,'' Gorbachev said in Moscow in an interview with French television Sunday night.
Gorbachev, who stepped down in December 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved, has said in the past that he was considering running for Boris Yeltsin's job.
- Associated Press
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