Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-liners determined to slow or roll back Deng's reforms and quiet the winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the conservatives showed their power in the ouster of Hu, Deng's hand-picked successor, who was fired for failing to crack down on massive student demonstrations last December that called for democratic freedoms...
...Union address in January. But the Tower commission's report, with its damning disclosures of ineptitude and malfeasance, seemed to serve as a catharsis for the White House. Finally, now that the Administration's sins had been exposed, the President was forced to act decisively, beginning with the ouster the following day of Chief of Staff Donald Regan and his replacement with Howard Baker, the capable and popular onetime Senate majority leader from Tennessee...
...taught in school, and many students are the first members of their families to have received a higher education. They are often attracted by the latest intellectual fashion or the best conspiracy plot. One theory now making the rounds is that the small CIA team that supposedly engineered the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines has arrived in Seoul to topple Chun...
...question of whether Deng is still in charge was first raised in January, when his protege and handpicked successor, Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, was abruptly ousted after being blamed for disruptive student demonstrations in December. Deng immediately spread the word that he had favored both Hu's ouster and a crackdown against the students, who were demanding more democracy...
When the melodrama came to its inevitable conclusion at week's end, Regan's ouster was yet another reminder that Nancy exerts extraordinary influence on her husband. The President considers her a trusted adviser, especially when it comes to hiring -- and firing. While Reagan avoids unpleasant confrontations, his wife is more hardheaded about staff failures and more willing to deal with them. "It's the eternal optimist in him," Nancy said of her husband a few years ago, "that if you let something go, it will eventually work itself out. Well, it isn't always...