Word: ousters
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...political vacuum that followed. That much was clear Monday when Indonesia's parliament voted for a second time to impeach President Abdurrahman Wahid on corruption allegations, opening the way for impeachment proceedings to begin within six weeks. The ailing cleric now appears politically doomed, but the consequences of his ouster could further deepen rather than resolve Indonesia?s political crisis...
...thing Megawati does have going for her besides more popular support than any of her rivals, is the backing of the military top brass. Having kept Suharto in power for three decades and then engineered his ouster when street protests threatened chronic instability, the military remains the ultimate arbiter of power in Jakarta. And while they're staying out of the parliamentary fray, the generals have warned the politicians to keep their differences off the streets. While there are no fears of an imminent coup, a long-term bout of political instability at the center amid an unraveling...
...Estrada has previously been charged with lesser corruption offenses since his ouster, but the latest charges are by far the most serious. Because they preclude bail, he'll be forced to await trial in prison, away from the political base that remains loyal to him and hostile to the business, religious and political elites that ousted him. He may take some solace in that the special anti-corruption court that will hear his case has a poor record of convictions on graft charges; it failed to convict former president Ferdinand Marcos, who was accused of abuses far more serious than...
When the end came, in the cool dawn of a Serbian spring, it came quickly. Four, five shots in the gathering light. A convoy rushing past the gates of the white fortress where Slobodan Milosevic had retreated since his ouster from power last fall. And it was over. Milosevic, the man who had terrorized the turbulent Balkans for a decade, was wrapped in the arms of the law. It was a victory for so many things. A victory for the idea that it was possible to pressure nations into democracy. A win for those Serbs who had fought to make...
RUSSIA Tit for Tat Moscow ordered the expulsion of 50 American embassy personnel in retaliation for the earlier U.S. ouster of 50 Russian diplomats accused of spying. The reciprocal moves recalled the darkest days of the cold war and suggested that relations will cool during the conservative Bush administration. The expelled Russians included six diplomats alleged to have been the "handlers" of fbi agent Robert Hanssen, arrested in February on charges of spying for the Kremlin...