Word: expel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation demanded a repudiation of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. If Jakes, 67, did not want to be undercut by the Soviet move, he would have to act -- and act soon. An agreement between Moscow and Prague was struck. Come October, Jakes would convene a Central Committee meeting and expel all Politburo members tainted by the 1968 invasion -- except himself. After appointing a new team of his own choosing, Jakes would then rehabilitate the 460,000 Communist Party members he had personally ordered purged immediately after the invasion...
Aoun is too weak to expel the Syrians himself but strong enough to create havoc. Last week his backers rioted and even roughed up their own religious leader, the pro-Moawad Maronite Patriarch...
...they want? Even Gorbachev might not know the answer to that question. What seems likely now is that Moscow may tolerate Poland's political pluralism and Hungary's economic experimentation, but it will be tempted to intervene if either seemed about to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and expel Soviet troops...
...realize that Jewish vigilantism makes for bad public relations at the least, but some Israelis fear the extremists have something more drastic in mind. As they see it, the situation will ultimately deteriorate into a full-scale war, what the more rabid call the "Big Bang," enabling Israel to expel the West Bank's 980,000 Arabs. Explains Domb: "Killing Arabs doesn't help our cause. That's why we talk about expulsions. It's more humane...
Then the Shah's government made the crucial mistake of asking Iraq to expel Khomeini. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein complied, thereby earning Khomeini's abiding hostility. In October 1978 the Ayatullah went to France and settled in Neauphle-le-Chateau, a Paris suburb, where for the first time he enjoyed the full glare of Western press attention. Shortly after his arrival, the continuing massive street demonstrations and battles between the Iranian soldiers and protesters turned the tide against the regime and led, within three months, to the Shah's exile. In February 1979 Khomeini made his triumphant return to Iran...