Word: ousting
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...third said Chen should step down as well. There are still those who believe Chen ought to finish the remaining 20 months of his term. After all, there has been no evidence to tie the President directly to any wrongdoing, and the notion of circumventing democratic institutions to oust a sitting leader makes many Taiwan citizens uneasy. But the pressure on Chen is mounting. Shih Ming-teh, a former DPP chairman, has raised more than $3 million to fund a series of mass protests in front of the Presidential Building starting Sept. 9. If the demonstrations gain momentum, Chen...
...that once had a lock on power, they tried and failed to wrest power from Chavez with a coup d'etat in 2002 and a nationwide oil strike that paralyzed the country later that year. They only seemed to deepen their hole when they lost a 2004 referendum to oust Chavez and then boycotted parliamentary elections last year - a blunder that allowed Chavez allies to take 100% control of Venezuela's National Assembly and strengthened his seeming omnipotence. Since then, divisive infighting has been the opposition's norm...
...this time Olmert reacted by declaring the hostage taking an "act of war," and Israel responded in kind. Within 24 hours, Israel conducted some 1,000 air missions over Lebanon--a number on par with the first day of the full-fledged war of 1982, when Israel moved to oust Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, which had been using Lebanon as a staging ground for attacks on Israel...
Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement has found a new?and formidable?crusader. Three years on from the 500,000-strong march of July 1, 2003 that helped oust unpopular Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the campaign is struggling to stay relevant. With the economy booming and Beijing ruling out the expansion of direct elections until after 2008, only 40,000 people took part in this year's July 1 march?a clear sign of the movement's lost momentum...
...earlier this week by the Berkeley City Council to put a resolution on the Nov. 7 ballot calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached. After all, 74,000 voters of what is often referred to as The People's Republic of Berkeley can't legally oust the President and Vice President. But Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates thinks his city is simply ahead of its time, as it has often proved to be in the past...