Word: ouster
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...would Republicans necessarily wish otherwise--particularly since the three words they fear most are President Al Gore. Clinton's ouster would bestow on the Vice President the advantage of running in 2000 as an incumbent, and as the man who helped the nation get over Monica. But in the shadow of a scandal-prone President, Gore is suffering in comparison with the most talked-about possible Republican contender. Polls show that if the 2000 election were held today, Texas Governor George W. Bush would handily beat Gore; a year ago, the same surveys had Gore ahead. "The optimum scenario...
...broke that agreement by talking to the Washington Post. Broder committed a "fundamental violation of the trust that any organization must have in its employees," Salon editor David Talbot told the New York Times, in what has become the official version of the events that led to Broder's ouster...
...supporters of ex-president Sali Berisha. Berisha, who was voted out in 1997 after the collapse of a moneymaking pyramid scheme plunged the country into anarchy, claims the current government assassinated one of his key aides. "Berisha's been trying to get back into power ever since his ouster," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The death of Adem Hajdari is his latest excuse for challenging the government...
...demise took him completely by surprise. Once he achieved power he didn't know what to do with it." It was his failure to clamp down on Hutu rebels using eastern Congo as a base from which to attack Rwanda that prompted Kabila's erstwhile sponsors to seek his ouster. "When Kabila last week began recruiting 12-year-olds to fight off these seasoned, well-trained, well-equipped fighters, it was clear that he had little chance of holding the capital," says Mutiso. The good news: Back in Lubumbashi, Kabila can now restart his career as a professional revolutionary...
...comes as no surprise. "Suharto would not have stepped down without cutting a deal to protect his family's wealth," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The military gave him certain guarantees to coax him out of power." But the thousands of Indonesians who fought for the dictator's ouster continue to demand that his wealth be turned over to the nation. So, in true horror movie fashion, the worst may be yet to come...