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...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...
...Scowcroft's influence was perhaps most evident in Bush's handling of the gulf war. While the two men were angling for bluefish off the Maine coast a year ago, Scowcroft suggested the strategy Bush would pursue over the following year, predicting that sanctions would fail to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, that war would be necessary, but that the U.S. should not expand its objective to include Saddam's removal from power...
...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...
...have launched a full-court press against him, with at least a dozen federal prosecutors and 25 DEA agents working on the case for the past year and a half. Although the State Department long viewed the Noriega indictment as a handy political stick with which to oust a greedy and unsavory ally, the Miami prosecution team sees it as a pure and simple drug case. "The alpha and omega of this case is narcotrafficking and personal enrichment," says Tom Cash, special agent in charge of the DEA's Miami office. "This case will be based on what Joe Friday...