Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right, was high on the opposition's agenda, the arrest came too late to keep the government together as the Democrats demanded that elections be held as early as next month. Given the social unrest exacerbated by drastic economic reforms, the Democrats are confident that this time they will oust the communists once...
...Turks abandoned Ozal for an older-model politician. For the nominal winner, Suleyman Demirel, 67, the right-wing leader of the True Path Party, victory was sweet revenge against a political enemy whom he had long since sworn to oust from office. But with only about 27% of the vote, Demirel was carefully looking for partners with whom to form a fragile coalition. Demirel, who served six times as Prime Minister during the 1960s and '70s, was twice removed from office by the armed forces. This time, in addition to high % inflation, he inherits a budget deficit of $6 billion...
...issues, the narrowness of Demirel's victory will limit his mandate. His central campaign promise was to oust Ozal from the presidency immediately, instead of waiting until 1996, by changing the constitution. But few political leaders would welcome a constitutional crisis when Turkey is seeking to show the European Community and its NATO allies that it is a stable, reliable partner. Says a Western diplomat in Ankara: "Demirel has a mandate not to be like Ozal -- but not to get rid of him either...
...times change. In June 1990, 6,000 coal miners from western Romania rampaged through Bucharest at President Ion Iliescu's invitation to break up an antigovernment protest. Last week 7,000 miners from the same region again took to the streets of the capital. Their aim: to oust Prime Minister Petre Roman, whom they had supported just 15 months before...
...Georgia hostilities deepened as renegade national guardsmen joined civilian efforts to oust Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the republic's authoritarian president. About 60 rebel guardsmen were reported killed in a clash with republic troops . . . The seizure of power in Tadzhikistan by Rakhman Nabiev, a hard-line former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among...