31.   The coup leader was later ousted by another soldier.

32.   The popular nationalist leader was ousted two years later in a clandestine CIA-backed coup that re-installed the pro-Western shah after a brief exile abroad.

33.   The U.S. administration has said it is considering a host of options, including military strikes, to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

34.   Top ULIMO commanders on Sunday ousted leader Roosevelt Johnson in the latest power struggle to hit the faction.

35.   West African leaders are expected to lend support to the use of military force to oust coup leaders in Sierra Leone when they meet Thursday for their annual summit.

36.   For the past four months Chechen forces have been battling a Russian-backed opposition movement that has tried in vain to oust Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.

37.   Cavallo also lost his next job as economic adviser to Ecuadoran president Abdala Bucaram when Congress ousted the leader in December for mental incompetence.

38.   Russia curtly rejected Monday allegations that it had supplied weapons and troops to pro-Moscow forces fighting to oust the leader of the breakaway Caucasian republic of Chechnya.

39.   The government and military backed a breakaway party congress that ousted PDI leader Megawati Sukarno in June.

40.   The PDI is already split ahead of the election after a rival faction ousted party leader Megawati Sukarnoputri with the backing of the government.