Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extraordinary purge reflected the discontent that has seethed within the lower echelons of the armed forces since the 1986 ouster of dictator Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Two weeks ago, the unrest exploded when noncommissioned officers toppled Lieut. General Henri Namphy as Haiti's leader and installed Lieut. General Prosper Avril as President. The coup grew out of grievances that ranged from bad food to military tolerance of the murder of civilians by thugs and members of the Tonton Macoutes, the secret police who terrorized Haitians during the 28-year dynasty begun by Duvalier's father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
Undaunted opposition leaders vowed that students, Buddhist monks, and striking civil servants would continue to protest in favor of liberalizing reforms. Maung Maung had promised multiparty democratic elections before his ouster...
Avril reported Namphy's ouster at about 2:30 a.m., several hours after shooting broke out at the main plaza in front of the presidential palace. The gunshots sent dozens of people fleeing for cover...
...County District Attorney Edward Jagels, who, like many prosecutors, is an active Bird critic. (Bird refuses to divulge her personal position on capital punishment.) The campaign against the chief is a major factor in the state's gubernatorial race. Republican Incumbent George Deukmejian has led the call for her ouster; with an eye to the polls, Deukmejian's Democratic challenger, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, has stayed neutral...
Whether or not the military will have to act could be decided by the party conference that begins this week. Resistance to reform from within the party might deepen the hostility of younger officers. And popular pressure could also prod the army to action. Protesters said one goal, the ouster of Sein Lwin, had been achieved, but another, the restoration of democracy, had not. As a poster that began appearing around Rangoon on Saturday proclaimed: WE ARE NOT SATISFIED...