Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That sort of empty gesture used to be a hallmark of conservation groups, but no more. Not only are environmentalists clamoring for Watt's ouster, they are trying to draw and quarter him in the courts for what they view as his efforts to turn back the environmental clock. "He's being sued right and left," crows Craig Van Note, executive vice president of the environmental group Monitor Consortium. And Patrick Parenteau, legal counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, predicts an "explosion of litigation" as Watt's plans for developing the nation's natural resources take...
...Khomeini asked his followers not to be "hasty and un-Islamic" in their treatment of suspects, his admonitions fell on deaf ears: last week Islamic tribunals sent 138 more opponents, including some teen-age girls, before firing squads, raising the total number of political executions since Banisadr's ouster on June 22 to nearly...
Stung by worldwide condemnation of the seaside executions in April 1980 that followed his ouster of President William R. Tolbert, Liberia's new head of state, Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, promised a quick return to civilian rule and a halt to the killings. Seventeen months later, Doe, 30, remains in power-and the killing has resumed. In June, 13 soldiers were executed after confessing to a plot to overthrow Doe and his People's Redemption Council (P.R.C.). Last month five members of the P.R.C. itself, including Doe's deputy, Thomas Weh Syen, were shot after...
...airline's new director. (At week's end the LOT employees accepted the government's appointee as "president" but insisted that their candidate actually run the airline.) Finally, transport workers in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz staged a two-hour warning strike to force the ouster of a local transport chief. Accused of corruption, the official finally resigned...
Following the ouster of Party Boss Edward Gierek in September, the Kania regime dismissed hundreds of officials for corruption or incompetence. Many local party units began demanding more internal democracy and "horizontal" relations among themselves, reversing the orthodox Leninist top-to-bottom party structure. Unable to stamp out such trends, Kania has endorsed a series of reforms that, if approved by this week's congress, would make the Polish Communist Party the most liberal in the Soviet bloc. The Sejm, Poland's parliament, is already the most representative and outspoken legislative body among the Warsaw Pact nations...