text: RTRS - Australian MP John Langmore formally resigns. CANBERRA 1996-12-06 
   Australian parliamentarian John Langmore has formally resigned from his lower house seat, the office of House of Representatives speaker Bob Halverson said on Friday. " Halverson announced that he had received today from Mr John Vance Langmore, a letter resigning his place as member of the House of Representatives for the electoral division of Fraser in the Australian Capital Territory, " his office said in a statement. Halverson was considering possible dates for the by-election, his office said. Langmore, 57, announced in November that he intended to resign from parliament to take up a position as Australia's senior representative at the United Nations headquarters in New York. He played an active role at the U. N. social development conference in Copenhagen last year and has co-authored articles with U. N. development programme officer Inge Kaul. Langmore, a persistent campaigner for interventionist economic policy, has been Labor member for Fraser since 1984. He was senior private secretary to the employment and industrial relations minister from 1983 to 1984 and was economic advisor to then treasurer Paul Keating in 1983. His previous posts include assistant director of the national planning office of Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 1973. --Canberra Bureau 61-6 273-2730
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