Word: ouster
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...thing last week. He voted against a proposal which limits the freedom of the press in the Statehouse, and also closes the political process to the public. Odd because McGee is a politician known for his closed door policies and backroom style of politics before his ouster from the speakership by current House Speaker George Keverian...
...what a turn for the worse by Keverian. We denounce his infringement on the First Amendment and his tightening of statehouse politics. We urge state leaders quickly to get back on the path of progressive, open politics--a road which seemed to have a promising future after the ouster of McGee...
...word in Khartoum last week was reconciliation: with the Sudanese people, with former enemy Libya and with antigovernment rebels in the south. The ruling military council, which took over after the ouster of President Gaafar Nimeiri last month, appointed a 15-man Cabinet, all but two of them civilians. The military will continue to wield power until elections, which the council has pledged will be held in a year's time...
...from a potential breadbasket into an economic basket case. A decade after Nimeiri embarked on a grand agricultural development program, only about 8% of the arable land is under cultivation, exports have fallen 50%, and the government is saddled with a foreign debt of $9 billion. Shortly before his ouster, Nimeiri, under pressure from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, imposed austerity measures that included sharp increases in the prices of bread and fuel. That show of discipline prompted Washington, two weeks ago, to free $67 million in assistance that had been frozen since mid-August. It also moved...
...break came last week after Geagea's militiamen refused a government request to dismantle a checkpoint and toll station that they maintained on the coastal highway to the north of Beirut. The commander of the Lebanese Forces, Fuad Abu Nader, 28, promptly removed Geagea from his post. Geagea's ouster, supported by Syria, quickly stirred dissension within the Lebanese Forces. Abu Nader tried to end the rift by announcing that in the future the Lebanese Forces would function independently of the Phalange Party, but his move came too late. Geagea's militiamen had already seized several Lebanese Forces barracks...