Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Europe balks at the destabilizing consequences of trying to starve out a dictatorship in its own backyard.) Indeed, with Milosevic?s strongest challengers right now being nationalists who reject the Kosovo peace deal, it may not even be in the West?s immediate interest to make Milosevic?s ouster a short-term priority. After all, in the long run he?s probably damned himself to a nasty end, whether as a besieged despot, a fugitive, in a war crimes court or worse. The truth, of course, is that there are no real winners in this messy Balkan conflict, only plenty...
...Suharto?s 33-year tenure. "The situation right now is unpredictable because it?s unclear what the military wants," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "There are likely to be divisions in the military, with some favoring making a deal with Megawati and others firmly opposed." But as in the ouster of Suharto, mass protests may yet play a decisive role. "The military?s preference is always to avoid violence and instability," says Dowell, "and that may persuade them to try and reach an understanding with Megawati." Indonesians may have voted in their first democratic election since 1955, but the result...
...since Suharto's ouster a year ago, Freeport's future in Indonesia has been called into question. The company's status and the allocation of its royalty payments have become a campaign issue. The company has denied any illegal behavior and notes that as one of Indonesia largest taxpayers, "it would be unusual if [we] did not maintain a close business relationship with the government of Indonesia and its officials, including then President Suharto." Fair enough, but in April, Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on $3.3 billion worth of Freeport debt and preferred stock, citing the firm's ties...
...leaning daughter of President Sukarno, who was overthrown by Suharto in a bloody coup in 1965. Still, says Dowell, "Habibie can't lose -- he's the approved candidate of the military, which keeps 238 of the 500 seats in parliament for their own appointees." The military orchestrated Suharto's ouster in the face of mass protests, and has been moving at its own pace to democratize the country. "Remember, this is a group of islands inhabited by an absolute diversity of linguistic, religious and ethnic groups bound together only by the fact that they were colonized by the Dutch," says...
...latest turmoil has its roots in the meltdown of a once hopeful alliance that united four African nations--Uganda, Angola, Rwanda and Burundi--with the promise of establishing a stable, democratic Congo. But the alliance, formed in 1996 to speed the ouster of longtime Congolese leader Mobutu Sese Seko, was split almost instantly by self-interest, greed and ambition. Laurent Kabila, the onetime Congolese rebel installed at the head of the new Congo government, is fighting against three of his ex-allies--Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi--in a desperate war to preserve his rule. The fighting has bled across Congo...