Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army. General Ramos, the head of the armed services, has declared himself repeatedly, in word and deed, to be fully behind the President. Nevertheless, as many as 6,000 young officers in the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), outraged at Enrile's ouster, may yet make trouble...
Less than a month after his ouster as Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile quietly reentered the political arena last week. In his first public appearance since being sacked by President Corazon Aquino, Enrile spoke to members of the right-wing Nacionalista Party. He denounced Aquino's cease-fire with the Communists and indicated that he opposed the new Constitution. Though Enrile turned down an offer to head the Nacionalista Party, he may lead a coalition of opposition groups in next May's legislative elections...
...White House confirmed, meanwhile, that Reagan met privately last week with two prominent elder statesmen that former aide Michael K. Deaver is said to have recruited in a campaign for the ouster of White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan...
...religious rally that the country had been spared a catastrophe. "I suppose our prayers have again been answered," she said, "because this afternoon we have once again done something that was peaceful. All our ministers have resigned." Putting it more bluntly, Teodoro Benigno declared that with Enrile's ouster a "dagger" had been removed from the government's heart...
...rooted in the recent past. The seeds of discord date from the very revolution that put Aquino in Malacanang Palace and Enrile at her side. Aquino supporters describe the heady February revolution as a popular uprising that was backed by the military. Enrile, on the other hand, paints Marcos' ouster as a military revolt that enjoyed popular support. "Cory didn't give me my job. I already had it," Enrile said more than once last week. "The military gave...