Word: ouster
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President Abdurrahman Wahid is unlikely to survive an impeachment vote in the Indonesian parliament, where he controls only 10 percent of the seats. But if his supporters decide to contest his ouster in the streets, the latest twist in Indonesia's tortured post-Suharto politics may provoke a bloodbath. And that's exactly what Wahid's supporters were threatening Tuesday, as they poured into Jakarta from his East Java stronghold, bearing machetes, sickles and the implacable conviction that the parliamentary challenge to the President is an assault on the 40-million strong Muslim organization he heads. Their mission: To stop...
...Like her Ptolemaic predecessors in the three centuries following Alexander the Great's ouster of the Persian administration in Egypt in 332 B.C., Cleopatra had to appeal to both Greeks and Egyptians-to be seen as both Greek monarch and Egyptian pharaoh. She also needed to present herself as a formidable figure amid the violence and chaos that characterized the Mediterranean region at the time. Indeed, before Cleopatra even ascended the Ptolemaic throne, she needed to have been ruthless, given the familial bloodbaths that long characterized her incestuous line...
...Commerce, Science and Transportation GOP chair: John McCain, Arizona Democratic chair: Ernest Hollings, South Carolina Effect of change: Bush may see McCain ouster as a plus, not a minus...
RESIGNED. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO, 47, popular Prime Minister of Ukraine, after receiving a vote of no confidence from the communist-led opposition in parliament; in Kiev. His ouster, which was met with the biggest protest in three months of political turmoil, removes the main check on the power of the business oligarchs to whom embattled President Leonid Kuchma is largely beholden. RESIGNED. CUMHUR ERSUMER, 48, Turkish Energy Minister and the highest-ranking official to step down over a graft scandal that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than...
...Wahid himself, of course, was always something of a compromise candidate, an interim figure chosen to preside over a fractious field in which no single leader had emerged with enough strength to claim the political spoils of Suharto's ouster. Now, it appears that his interim may be coming to an end, and Indonesia's politicians are preparing for yet another year of living dangerously...