Word: oust
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...this issue, our Woman of the Year, Corazon Aquino, is unlikely to | confuse or outrage anyone, save for die-hard supporters of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, whom she helped to oust. "She is one of the rare world leaders whose appeal crosses every barrier of ideology and geography," says Contributor Pico Iyer, who wrote the main story. "All the world can rejoice in her rise." Aquino is the third member of her sex to occupy the cover alone as the annual TIME choice. She follows Queen Elizabeth (1952) and Wallis Simpson (1936). A Women of the Year cover...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Crude prices plummeted from $26 per bbl. in January to below $10 in April and remained under $15 for most of the year. The low prices distressed the Saudi royal family and provoked anger from other OPEC countries, prompting the Saudis in October to oust Yamani as Oil Minister after he had spent two decades as a leading OPEC strategist. With that, the Saudis abandoned their price-war tactics. When OPEC met in December, twelve of its 13 members, with Iraq dissenting, decided to cut production and sell their various grades of oil at fixed...
Security was stepped up sharply. For the first time since the overthrow of Marcos, reporters were not allowed on the Malacanang Palace grounds. Checkpoints were installed on roads leading into the capital. In midafternoon, as soon as she had told the nation of her decision to oust Enrile, the President gave the oath of office to Ileto. Then she went to the Quirino grandstand in Manila's Rizal Park and declared at a religious rally that the country had been spared a catastrophe. "I suppose our prayers have again been answered," she said, "because this afternoon we have once again...
...North's global troubleshooting has sometimes landed him in trouble. As head of NSC operations in Central America, he organized a private supply network that provided aid to the contra rebels seeking to oust the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Senate and House committees investigated North's role last year, but found no proof that he had violated a U.S. law regulating aid to the contras. The colonel's name briefly surfaced again last month when Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus was captured in Nicaragua after his plane was shot down while he was flying weapons to the contras. A card found...
California conservatives are loathe to waste such an opportunity to spread their revolution into the judiciary. The Right has spared no expense in a campaign to oust the Court's three most liberal Justices, knowing that their defeat will enable Republican Governor George Deukmejian to appoint new, conservative Justices and thereby shift the ideological balance of the Court...