Word: oust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers of fortune, usually of right-wing persuasion, who fought for pay in Mozambique or Angola and staged coup attempts in the Camores or Dominica. Most of those involved in the Seychelles operation probably did not know who backed the job. They were simply paid $1,000 each to oust a leftist regime, and promised a further $10,000 if the coup succeeded. But they failed. "They were the fledglings, not the real Wild Geese. Maybe that's how they came to mess it up," says Douglas Lord, a Johannesburg store manager and veteran of the Congo mercenary campaign...
ONCE IN POWER, Sadat tried to consolidate his shaky position by making popular political moves. His decision to oust the soviets was widely praised, as was his order to cut back on the powers of the secret police. But Egypt suffered from an inferiority complex brought on by its resounding defeat in the June 1967 war with Israel. Antagonism was at a high and the prospect for breaking the Arab-Israeli deadlock seemed non-existant...
...More heads rolled in the Central Committee voting, when candidates on the liberal and conservative extremes were rejected, leaving the centrists in control. Among the prominent officials who went down to defeat were Politburo Hard-liners Mieczyslaw Moczar and Tadeusz Grabski; the latter had led an unsuccessful drive to oust Kania last month and was deemed a strong challenger for the party leadership. One of the highest vote tallies, 1,615, went to Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski-a solid expression of support for his pragmatic policies...
...third senate term, then went off to jail. There he befriended Everett Bleichner, an insurance adjuster convicted of extortion. Bleichner was released on Feb. 9. and Gerald made him a senate aide. After years of never expelling anyone, the senate last week voted 33 to 3 to oust Gerald...
...make sure delegates attend council meetings, the constitutional committee has drafted strict recall and dismissal provisions, including a possible by-law that would automatically oust any delegate who misses three consecutive meetings. In addition, the committee has proposed a complex system for the council's allocations of funds to student groups: There would be six budget subcommittees dealing with different categories of student groups; each of the 130 recognized student organizations at Harvard would have one representative on one of the six subcommittees; each subcommittee would submit a separate budget to a steering committee; the steering committee would review...