Lorelli had been conscious about managing his own transition from interim CEO to executive chairman.
The army has assumed responsibility for law and order during the messy and chaotic interim transition; the police resented this and the army's failure to protect police stations from getting torched during the revolution.
Global Exchange, a San Francisco antiwar group, has set up a Web site, StopJayGarner.com, arguing that Jay Garner, a retired lieutenant general who is overseeing the transition to an interim Iraqi government, is the wrong choice because of his past work with military contractors.
And as the assembly nears a deadline set under an earlier interim transition plan, most secular members and the representatives of the Coptic Church have walked out, costing it up to a quarter of its 100 members and much of its legitimacy.
"We believe this interim transition is in the best interests of investors, our listed issuers, market stability and efficiency, as well as Knight, as the firm finalizes its equity financing transaction," Larry Leibowitz, chief operating officer of NYSE Euronext, said in the statement.
The referendum is a key step in the political transition plan the interim government has billed as a path to democracy as it continues to take fierce measures against the Brotherhood, Egypt's best organised party until last year.
Smith afterwards held direct talks with Nkomo and ZAPU in Salisbury, but these also led nowhere; Nkomo proposed an immediate transition to an interim government headed by himself, which Smith rejected.
Power struggles between the old guard and reformers, in particular the increasingly aggressive role of the interim military transition government in Egypt, risk eroding faith in the military and hope for a timely transition to civilian rule.
Thanks to a new law signed by Mr. Bush, some of Mr. Obama's transition advisers should have interim security clearances starting on Wednesday.
"A lot of this is in the hands of the Malians, to see that that political transition happens," said the interim head of the United Nations Mission in Mali, David Gressly.
CAIRO — In the clearest statement yet of the United States' position on the military's ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, a senior American diplomat warned on Monday that the generals would jeopardize Egypt's "second chance" at a democratic transition if their new interim government continued to crack down on Mr. Morsi's Islamist supporters.
