Word: oust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further discussion of sovereignty. General Galtieri, with inflation rising at 147%, the peso at 11,300 to the dollar (official rate) and serious internal discontent, had so far whipped up national sentiment as to have pasted himself into a corner. There were others at hand, quite prepared to oust him if his venture failed. Among the admirals were men of much more fascist temper than he. The air force generals, long in second place to the admirals, were gaining in clout. Galtieri had to succeed. How could he withdraw-and survive...
...first press reports made it seem plausible: another Bay of Pigs was in the offing. Amid the forests of the Florida Everglades, where Cuban exiles had plotted to oust Fidel Castro, a new counterrevolutionary army had been born. This time the rebels were Nicaraguan expatriates mobilizing to overthrow their country's quasi-Marxist regime...
...Harvard-Northeastern track rivalry continued last year with a two-point, 69-67 Crimson loss, and Saturday afternoon the two squads go at it again. But this time around, Harvard coach Bill McCurdy's unbeaten charges will have to turn in a stellar performance to oust the favored Huskies and turn in their fourth straight...
...advisers supplied by East Germany and Cuba, and is reported to have a slush fund of $1 billion a year for terrorist activities alone. He allegedly tried four times to have Sadat killed, and the Presidents of Niger, the Sudan and Tunisia have all accused Gaddafi of trying to oust them...
...Salvador's neighbors are also divided about the election. The Organization of American States last week voted 22 to 3 to back the election and send observers if requested. But the resolution was opposed by Nicaragua and Grenada, which support the leftist guerrillas who are trying to oust the Salvadoran junta, and by Mexico, which favors a negotiated political settlement. Four other countries abstained...