Word: ouster
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...have looked like a revolution, but last week?s ouster of Slobodan Milosevic was not quite the decisive break with the past implied by that term - as President Vojislav Kostunica is discovering, at his expense. Parties that made up Milosevic?s ruling coalition pulled out of talks with Kostunica on Wednesday, warning that they?d only return when a campaign to strip appointees of the old regime of their positions in the bureaucracy is halted. And that could be a serious problem for Kostunica, who lacks the parliamentary majority necessary to form a government unless he can persuade Milosevic...
...polls 11 days ago. Milosevic had challenged his opponents to a fight on the street Wednesday, when his constitutional court responded to opposition claims of electoral fraud by annulling the results and simply ordering a new election. That ruling closed off the last legal avenue for achieving Milosevic?s ouster, and set the scene for a potentially violent showdown...
...there's his uncle Rifaat, exiled since leading a failed coup attempt against his father in 1983 - and against whose supporters Hafez and Bashar, of late, have conducted a campaign of violent harassment. Rifaat made clear Monday that, having held the title of deputy president before his ouster, he, and not Bashar, should succeed Hafez Assad. Syria's security forces have pledged to arrest the outcast uncle should he attempt to come home, but that hasn't stopped him from stirring up trouble...
DIED. JAMES VORENBERG, 72, former Harvard Law School dean and a key deputy to Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, whose organizational efforts helped the office survive President Nixon's ouster of Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre; of cardiac arrest; in Boston...
...earlier that the general could remain in office pending the outcome of an official investigation into his role in last year's East Timor violence. The standoff had fueled rumors of a coup against Wahid, who had asked for the resignation of Wiranto - the military leader who engineered the ouster of former dictator Suharto - while on a two-week world tour pitching Indonesia to foreign investors. But Wahid appears to have moved skillfully and stealthily to isolate his security minister from his former comrades in arms, courting generals and reshuffling the top command to the point where Wiranto would have...