Word: interim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overthrow of three governments in the Comoro Islands. But Denard may have finally pushed fortune too far. Involved in the assassination of Comoro President Ahmed Abdallah, Denard and his mercenary minions were running the country until late last week, when French troops called in by the Comoro interim President hastened his departure...
James S. Hodgson, who directed the GSD's library during its recent period of rapid expansion, will be replaced in January by Head of Technical Services Hinda F. Sklar on an interim basis until a successor can be found...
Harvard's first basket--a Mitchell follow off a Scott Gilly jumper--and its last hoop--a Steve Bowsher layup off a fastbreak assist from Tarik Campbell--were noteworthy. But the Eagles dominated the interim...
...help the hard-pressed Soviet economy, Bush promised to waive the Jackson- Vanik Amendment, which restricts U.S.-Soviet trade, as soon as the Supreme Soviet concludes legislation permitting free emigration. For the interim, he proposed that the two nations negotiate a new trade treaty in time for the June summit. He also vowed to support observer status for the Soviet Union at the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) talks, a move long sought by the Soviets to help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economic system...
...think a well-brought-up person ! should say, 'I want to be Prime Minister.' " Komarek feels that the Civic Forum tends too heavily toward compromise and should instead mount a radical assault on the existing order. "What's needed," he says, "is the establishment immediately of an interim government of experts, democratic experts." For their part, the Civic Forum leaders fear that what they perceive as a bid for power by Komarek might upset the delicate consensus that has given the opposition the upper hand in negotiations with the government...