Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nola finally call it off. By then, military units and leftist vigilantes had put up roadblocks around the city, searching cars for arms. Some 250 people, many of them prominent figures in the old regime, were arrested. When leftists on the ruling junta ordered Spínola to oust three conservative generals who were believed to be sympathetic to the rightist scheme, he balked-and then resigned...
...events clearly marked the end of the public career of the tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) monarch who won the world's heart 38 years ago when he stood on the podium of the League of Nations in Geneva, begging the world's powers to help him oust Mussolini's troops from Ethiopia. "God and history will remember your judgment!" he warned the delegates...
...peace and war, was showing signs of strain. Its first two tries at building executive jets seemed to have flopped expensively, and its attempts to refurbish and resell old planes appeared to be sputtering. Shortly before the war, Moshe Dayan, then head of the Defense Ministry, tried to oust the company's boss, Al Schwimmer...
Caramanlis, however, does not have a completely free hand. The Greek military still looms as a potent ar biter of the government's ac tions, particularly in the sensitive negotiations over Cyprus. Many military men remain strongly committed to eventual enosis, and the officers may be tempted to oust the new Premier if he concedes too much to Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots...
...Ukraine, the son of a rabbi; his mother was shot during a pogrom. During World War II, Korff was a member of a group that bribed the Nazis to allow some Jews to leave Germany. After the war Korff was involved with the terrorist Stern gang, which fought to oust the British from Palestine. In 1947 he was arrested by the French for allegedly taking part in a bizarre plot to bomb London with propaganda leaflets attacking the British stand on Palestine. He denied any wrongdoing and the French later released him without trial...