Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ouster was formal proof that Deng had succeeded in his four-year struggle to shift the balance of power in the Peking leadership and win wide-based acceptance for his program to speed up China's economic growth. To fight Hua and his supporters, Deng had carefully put together a coalition of his own composed of thousands of officials who had been ignominiously disgraced-like Deng and Hu themselves-during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, returning from exile only after Mao's death. Under Deng, this group has sought to free China from the rigid constraints Maoism...
Opposition to the theocracy desired by the Muslim fundamentalists is currently being led by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), a clandestine Islamic socialist party that commands some 100,000 armed urban guerrillas. Supporters of Banisadr, the Mujahedin reacted to the President's ouster by engaging Khomeini's armed zealots, the Hezbollahis (Members of God's Party), in bloody street fighting in Tehran and other cities, killing 25 and wounding several hundred...
Iran's Kurdish minority, which has been relatively quiescent in the past few months, reacted to Banisadr's ouster by staging riots in the city of Mahabad in northwestern Iran. Many of the nation's 4 million Kurds, who have been fighting for autonomy for generations, seem to have joined forces with other opposition groups who are heeding Banisadr's recent admonition to the Iranian people...
Walesa's next stop was the southern textile center of Bielsko-Biala, where strikers demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials had shut down 120 factories and paralyzed most of the surrounding province since Jan. 27. At midweek the provincial governor and three deputies submitted their resignations, apparently clearing the way for a solution. But Premier Jozef Pinkowski refused to accept the resignations immediately. With that, the talks broke off abruptly...
...helmsman played it masterly. He let justice take its course, waited for the dust to settle, then severed the troublesome member with one clean stroke. In announcing Tekere's dismissal, Mugabe denied any connection with the murder trial. Mugabe's tongue-in-cheek reason for the ouster: "I felt he needed a bit of rest so he can recover from the pressures and strains...