Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indochina. For Moscow, the partnership keeps China off-balance and helps the Soviets gain influence in all of Southeast Asia. But fiercely independent Viet Nam is no complaisant puppet. Some Western experts believe that Hanoi did not seek prior approval from Moscow before invading Cambodia in December 1978 to unseat the Pol Pot regime. They also think that if it came to a truly hard choice-accepting further Soviet aid at the cost of forsaking their own goals-the Vietnamese would bite the bullet, as it were, and go it alone...
Soviet-American relations have been on a downward slide since 1974, when Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate ?an event that some Soviets still regard as part of a sinister plot by American hard-liners to unseat a President who then favored a policy of accommodation with the U.S.S.R. Those relations fell off a cliff when Jimmy Carter became President. Looking back over the past 3½ years, Soviets launch into a long, angry, but obviously one-sided litany of grievances: the President's letter to dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov barely three weeks into Carter's presidency; Carter's ill-fated...
...answer is invariably yes. After three years of inundating radio air waves with his "What's Wrong with America" sermons, Eddie Chiles is now leading a drive to unseat Fort Worth Congressman and House Majority Leader Jim Wright. "Jim Wright is a socialist," he charges. Replies Wright condescendingly: "I just have to feel sorry for anyone who is always looking for things to be mad about." Chiles accuses Wright and other Washington officials of wild Government spending, runaway regulation and tyrannical bureaucracy...
...unseat the Elis will prove at best a formidable task. Both crews stand undefeated after the early season match races. By virtue of its triumphs last year and its impressive victory margins this spring the Elis topped the Crimson in the national coaches poll...
Members of the losing Ward 2 slate petitioned for a recount yesterday. A switch of as few as ten votes could unseat many of the elected liberals...