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  3. Aug. 19, 1991: Resigned:Dick Thornburgh
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991               
  7. Aug. 19, 1991  Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?         
  8. </history>
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. MILESTONES, Page 54
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  14. <p>     RESIGNED. Dick Thornburgh, 59, as Attorney General after three
  15. years of almost constant controversy and turmoil at the Justice
  16. Department; in Washington. A former two-term Governor of
  17. Pennsylvania, Thornburgh left the Cabinet to run for the Senate
  18. seat of Pennsylvania Republican John Heinz, who died in a plane
  19. crash last April. Thornburgh is heavily favored to defeat
  20. Heinz's interim replacement, Democrat Harris Wofford, in a
  21. special election this fall.
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