31.   President Boris Yeltsin surprised the nation by resigning at midday Friday, ending his eight-year rule.

32.   Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama may resign at the end of this year, Reuters reported, citing the newspaper Tokyo Shimbun.

33.   Smith is resigning at the end of the month and will take a top post with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the summer.

34.   State officials increased their pressure on the county Board of Supervisors after interim county Chief Executive William Popejoy said yesterday he would resign at the end of the month.

35.   St. Louis Fed President Thomas Melzer previously announced he is resigning at the end of this month.

36.   That combination of credentials is what put Arena at the top of the domestic candidate list when Sampson resigned at the end of the World Cup.

37.   The clarification came after Suharto made a speech promising to resign at an unspecified future date following new parliamentary elections.

38.   The current secretary, Mike Espy, is planning to resign at the end of December.

39.   The forest service chief is not a political appointee and does not automatically resign at the end of the Clinton administration.

40.   The head of Chrysler Japan Sales Ltd., Hideo Hohgi, resigned at the end of March after just a year on the job.