
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, December 14, 1993                   TAG: 9312140087
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: TORONTO                                LENGTH: Short

CANADIAN LEADER QUITS AFTER 6 MONTHS

Kim Campbell's 15 minutes of fame lasted six months, ending in her resignation Monday as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party.

After a meteoric rise from obscurity to become Canada's first woman prime minister in June, she led the Conservatives to their worst election defeat in history four months later.

The party, which lost all but two of its 154 seats in the House of Commons, wasted no time showing her the door.

The party executives scheduled a meeting for Tuesday and was expected to name former Environment Minister Jean Charest as interim party leader. Charest holds one of the Conservatives' two seats.

Campbell, 46, a Vancouver lawyer, was elected to the House of Commons in 1988 and rose quickly under the tutelage of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. She won a tight battle with Charest for the party leadership last spring following Mulroney's resignation.

Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by CNB