Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rifts within Solidarity, the loose alliance of workers and intellectuals that last year brought four decades of Communist rule to an end. Parliamentary elections slated for early next year may formalize the movement's breakup, which began earlier this year when Walesa made clear his intention to oust General Wojciech Jaruzelski from the presidency...
...election would be complete without at least one surprise winner who zooms in from left field to capture high office. This time that distinction belongs to Paul Wellstone, a political-science professor from Carleton College, who last week became the only challenger to oust an incumbent Senator. His victim, Republican Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, had seemed assured of a third term. "They just outhustled us," Boschwitz said by way of concession...
...that was not exactly the most warlike battle cry ever issued, it was typical of a week of confusing and contradictory signals on whether the U.S. is preparing to launch an armed attack to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait. After Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recommended that 100,000 U.S. troops be added to the 210,000 already deployed along the Persian Gulf, there were widespread rumors and speculation that the offensive would start soon after this week's congressional elections -- or before Christmas, or early in the new year...
...that a war to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, to invade, contain and ultimately neutralize Iraq as a military threat, would take 1 million American troops. To anyone familiar with the war planners' imperative to be ready for any contingency, the figure is not startling. The White House has been told of the Pentagon's estimates; the figures reflect the fear generated by the U.S. failure in Vietnam that without massive battlefield superiority at specified points, the U.S. could easily get bogged down in the Persian Gulf...
Some students said they supported Silber's candidacy as a way to oust him from his B.U. position...