Word: oust
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...term limits are not the best way to oust crusty old politicians. There is a much simpler way: vote them...
Camp d'Application is the Haitian army's training center, but its far greater importance is as the base for the heavy weapons. The guns and armored vehicles stored there have for years been the military's coupmaking tools, equipment that can surround administrative buildings and oust governments. Three years ago, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, then an unknown police major, seized control of the heavy weapons and rolled into the capital to overthrow Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first democratically elected President. The hardware is now under guard inside the U.S. base at the airport...
...have to order the first major military incursion of his presidency. It would come in defiance of intense public and congressional opposition that his Thursday night speech had only begun to soften. A TIME/CNN poll on Friday showed that 58% of Americans still opposed sending U.S. troops to oust Haiti's dictators. Nor was Congress impressed: Monday was the date for lawmakers to take up resolutions opposing an invasion, which, if a vote took place, were likely to pass overwhelmingly. Critics already were denouncing an invasion ordered without the legislature's approval as unconstitutional, and TIME's poll showed that...
Within weeks, perhaps days, the Irish Republican Army is expected to declare a cease-fire in its war to oust Britain from Northern Ireland and unite the troubled island. Depending on the duration and effectiveness of that armistice, Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., could be included in peace talks planned by the British and Irish governments. Could the age that has seen the end of the cold war, democracy in South Africa and real progress toward peace in the Middle East also deliver a solution to the Irish problem...
After a bloody, 25-year struggle to oust Britain from Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) is expected to declare a cease-fire Wednesday, says TIME Ireland Correspondent Tony Connelly. On Sunday, Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., said the "essential ingredients" and ``necessary conditions" for a settlement were falling into place. "It's the most positive thing he's said so far," says Connelly. Adams' on-the-record remarks are bolstered by off-the-record exchanges in the local media that point to an imminent halt to the armed conflict...