Word: oustings
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...member National Assembly voted unanimously by a show of hands to oust Zhivkov and to replace him with Petar Mladenov, who took over from Zhivkov as party chief last week. Deputies praised Mladenov for his "enthusiasm" for perestroika, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform program...
...seemed particularly disturbed by charges that he abandoned the rebels, leaving them on their own after publicly exhorting the Panamanian military to oust Noriega. Bush said that was "a stupid argument that some very erudite people make...
...United States has been trying to oust Noriega, the Defense Forces chief who controls the government, for nearly two years. However, officials in Washington said they were not responsible for the attempted coup and U.S. troops were not involved...
...truth was different, and Beijing knew it. An estimated 5,000 citizens died in only a few hours between Saturday night and Sunday morning after units of the P.L.A.'s 27th Army launched their brutal assault to oust pro-democracy students from Tiananmen; the exact number of victims may never be known...
...result of the struggle that by 1969 military officers held 40% of the Communist Party's key posts. By this time, though, Mao had a new threat to contend with: the ambition of Defense Minister Lin Biao, then his designated successor. The impatient Lin laid plans to oust Mao via the euphemistically named "571 Engineering Project," but his coup plot was discovered, and Lin died when the plane in which he escaped from Beijing crashed in Mongolia. After Lin's death, that most deft of diplomats, Zhou Enlai, reduced the army's role in political affairs...