NATION

E. A. Horrigan Jr., chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. since 1980 and an unsuccessful player in the bid to buy out RJR Nabisco Inc., will resign from the North Carolina company effective March 1. Horrigan will continue to assist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the new owners of RJR Nabisco, the tobacco company’s parent company, until his successor is named.