Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Santiago's central cemetery, alongside Chile's other past presidents. A Marxist who tried to introduce radical reform, Allende died, reputedly a suicide, as troops stormed the presidential palace during a 1973 coup that led to 16 years of military rule. Current President Patricio Aylwin, who supported Allende's ouster but quickly tired of rule by the generals, was faint in his praise of Allende. But he added, "The pain of the drama that Chile lived through has taught us that these circumstances should never be repeated...
...Koppel, who beat him into Iraq. Nor has Rather's globe- trotting improved the ratings: the CBS Evening News has been No. 3 for the past three weeks. Broadcast-group president Howard Stringer insisted that the costly Iraq coverage was not a factor in Burke's ouster. "I have not had a | single discussion with the news division about the cost of the Iraq coverage," he said. "The footage Dan got from Baghdad was worth its weight in gold." He also denied the reports of impending budget cuts, asserting that the network's news budget would increase this year...
While Dan Rather was anchoring in the Middle East, a big story broke back home: news president David Burke's ouster after two turbulent years of budget woes and declining ratings...
More substantive changes are afoot. The ouster of Margaret Honecker, wife of deposed leader Erich Honecker, as Minister of Education put an end to a compulsory "civics" course heavily freighted with Communist Party dogma. In its place is a social-studies curriculum called Gesellschaftskunde, which encourages teachers and students to range over all sorts of topics. Recently, pupils spent an hour pondering "personal happiness." "It's such a new situation," says Uwe Klauke, 22, a trainee physics teacher. "We know so little about self-reliance and developing your own values. But I think inhibitions are breaking down...
Despite their different ways of handling street dissent, those in power in Bucharest and Sofia share significant similarities. Just as Iliescu and his supporters seemed prepared to take over in Romania as soon as Ceausescu was toppled, Bulgaria's longtime Foreign Minister, Petar Mladenov, carefully orchestrated the ouster last November of dictator Todor Zhivkov and then engineered his own succession as President...