Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only man in a Crimson jersey who didn't walk off the court a winner last night was captain John Havens. Havens fell to MIT number one man Kevin Burns, who combined skilled shot-making with excellent anticipation to oust the All-League Havens in four games...
TEHRAN, Iran--more than 400,000 people marched peacefully through Tehran yesterday to protest the authoritarian rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the largest demonstration of the 11-month-old campaign to oust the shah...
From his home in exile near Paris, Ayatullah Khomeini, the 80-year-old spiritual leader of Iran's Shi'ite Muslims called for an indefinite general strike. Khomeini, who has vowed to oust the Shah, also urged Iran's oil workers to repeat last month's two-week strike that cost the country more than $1 billion in crude-oil revenues. As the holiday began, residents of Tehran broke the curfew and crowded into the streets to see if the new moon had appeared, signaling the start of Muharram. Government troops opened fire on the chanting...
...real question was whether Somoza had won the civil war, or merely the first battle in a campaign to oust his dictatorial regime. Although the Sandinistas slipped over into their wilderness hiding places, they had won something of a moral victory. They had shown that most of Nicaragua's 2.6 million people are bitterly anti-Somoza. In town after town, armed only with pistols and hunting rifles, ordinary people ignored danger and risked reprisal to support the guerrillas. In León, an elderly doctor, patching up the wounded, paused long enough to offer this defiant assessment: "Our wounds will never...
...guard also said government troops were fighting rebels in Chinandega and Esteli. The rebels, led by guerrillas of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front, launched a general uprising last weekend in an effort to oust Somoza...