Word: ousting
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...arrest last July of 67 Cabinet members, politicians and government employees in an alleged conspiracy against the new regime; 21 officials, including a Deputy Prime Minister, were executed for treason, but the rationale for the purge remains a mystery. The government branded the plot a Communist attempt to oust Saddam Hussein and unofficially suggested that Syria was behind the machinations. Most Western observers believe it was engineered by the new President simply to eliminate critics of his authoritarian rule...
Relations between the university and the faculty have been strained since 1975, when the faculty unionized over the heated objection of B.U. President John R. Silber. Faculty activists charge that Silber has tried to destroy the union, and 25 professors recently formed a committee seeking to oust Silber...
...plot to oust Romero was hatched about six months ago by a cadre of liberal army officers organized as a "council of military youth." They were assisted by reformist academics of the Jesuit-run University of Central America Jose Simeon Canas. Inspired by the success of Nicaragua's revolution, both groups were convinced that the only way to prevent all-out "class warfare" was to end the corrupt military regime and, as an intellectual who helped plan Romero's ouster explained last week, overhaul the country's "antiquated economic, social and political structures...
...autocratic rule. Three days before the Pusan riots, all 69 opposition deputies in the 231-member National Assembly angrily resigned to protest the expulsion of their popular leader, New Democratic Party Chief Kim Young Sam. The assembly majority-carefully stacked with tame members appointed by Park-had voted to oust Kim after he attacked the government as "a basically dictatorial regime," called on the U.S. to "pressure" Park on behalf of human rights and declared that he was prepared to discuss reunification with North Korean Dictator Kim II Sung...
Spurred by what they see as disdain for faculty rights, 25 Boston University (B.U.) professors have formed a committee seeking to oust B.U. President John R. Silber...