Word: ouster
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...Iran's standard response, which is that the country does not engage in terrorism and that it supports peace." For Iran, MacLeod notes, closer relations are likely only if the U.S. agrees to concrete concessions such as returning Iranian assets frozen after the Shah's 1979 ouster. "The Iranians have a lot of evidence to suggest the U.S. is not sincere in establishing good relations. So for the time being, the response will be that when the U.S. makes a really serious positive gesture, then an optimistic response will be given...
...city center a crowd of about 1,000 gathers to hear a speaker demand the ouster of Berisha, but he is preaching to the converted. "Here in Vlora," says Velo Cazin, 44, "all people think as one. Berisha must come down." They also think they can somehow be given back the money taken by the pyramid funds, even though almost every Albanian lost some savings...
...power and is threatening to uncover a dark history of Kremlin corruption. Korzhakov's election to parliament, which gives him the added benefit of immunity from prosecution, gives him a significant base to work against archrival Anatoly Chubais as they jockey in preparation for Russian after Yeltsin. Before his ouster last July, Korzhakov had worked for Yeltsin since his days as head of the Moscow Communist Party. He emerged in the Russian press as a shadowy figure with lucrative business interests and his own multimillion-dollar military compound, whose support was sought for everything from state policies to key ministerial...
Bulgaria, fueled by the one thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists...
Bulgaria, fueled by the one thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists...