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Word: expel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's government then made three mistakes, the effect of which was to give Khomeini even greater prominence First, it tried to discredit him with implausible charges, such as contending that Khomeini was an Iraqi spy. Secondly in mid-1977 it asked Iraq to expel Khomeini, and Baghdad complied. The U.S., among other countries, refused to take him in, lest such an act offend the Shah. Since he was permitted automatic entry if he had a valid passport, he decided to go to France, whose government took the precaution of asking the Shah whether he had any objections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Unknown Ayatullah Khomeini | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...change in policy on Rhodesia. The Commonwealth Prime Ministers are scheduled to meet in Zambia later this year. If the African members should still be angry with Mrs. Thatcher at that time, they could embarrass her greatly by deciding upon some kind of retaliation, such as an attempt to expel Britain from the British Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Now, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...Faculty did take some steps against ROTC--voting in February, 1969, to strip ROTC courses of academic credit, and to revoke the Corporation appointments of ROTC instuctors--but it overwhelmingly rejected the SDS demand that Harvard expel ROTC from campus. Gen. C.P. Hammun, national director of the ROTC program, announced the next day that the prospects of keeping ROTC were "extremely good...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Strike as History | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...able to head off a retaliatory program directed at the U.S. But after the P.L.O., Syria and Libya stalked out of the meeting to underscore their demands for drastic action against Sadat, the moderates joined in the unanimous approval of a political, diplomatic and economic boycott that will virtually expel Egypt from the Arab world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Jumble of Reactions | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...pure soap opera, and India's most accomplished tearjerker was relishing her leading role. After Indira Gandhi's colleagues in the 542-member lower house of the Indian Parliament wound up a rancorous two-week debate by voting overwhelmingly to expel her and send her to jail for contempt, the graying former Prime Minister, 61, declared that "I would rather be arrested here and now and not in the dead of night at my house." Then she clambered onto a table and waited for the police. Before they led Mrs. Gandhi off to Delhi's Tihar jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi in the Slammer | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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