Word: oustings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Honduran warplanes bombed Nicaraguan positions Saturday afternoon in a rugged border area where President Jose Azcona was reinforcing troops to oust the Sandinista solidiers...
...Washington the Reagan Administration firmly backed the failed effort to oust Noriega. "We want to reiterate our unqualified support for civilian constitutional rule in Panama," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. With 10,000 troops at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama, Washington is sensitive to charges that it seeks to bully its neighbor. Yet Vice President George Bush talked tough while campaigning in South Carolina for the Republican presidential nomination. "We're not going to be pushed around about the defense of the Panama Canal," Bush said. "We will do whatever is necessary to protect American interests...
Justines was chosen by President Devalle on Feb. 25 to replace Noriega, but Devalle's attempt to fire Noriega backfired. Noriega supporters in the National Assembly instead voted to oust Delvalle...
Early Friday, the National Assembly voted to oust Delvalle hours after he announced his plan to fire Noriega, chief of the Defense Forces and the power behind Delvalle's civilian government...
...Discussing the deaths of suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland, Ken Livingstone suggested that the British Attorney General was an "accomplice to murder." Tories shouted, "Withdraw! Withdraw!" and the Speaker admonished the Labor M.P., demanding that he rephrase his comment. As Livingstone sat silently unrepentant, the Commons voted to oust him from the chamber. A sword-bearing sergeant at arms escorted him out the door...