Word: expels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total abolition of censorship. They agreed that Communist Party control in Poland must remain unquestioned, and -remembering the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia-tacitly accepted a ban on any works that would offend the Soviet Union. Instead, they set in motion machinery to make it more difficult for conservatives to expel writers from the union, and determined to press for more precise and less arbitrary censorship rules...
...that Yeh Chih-hsiung of Peking's official Hsinhua agency could cover the U.N. with a clear conscience. Peking does not want its reporters taking part in organizations that allow Taiwanese participation. In Ottawa, Hsinhua has refused to join the Parliamentary Press Gallery because its members will not expel the C.N.A...
Loud dissensions from the Brown ranks against referees' decisions spiced the game. The referees had to expel both Brown coach George Goedtz and one of his players for ungentlemanly remarks...
...Assembly, the U.S. and its energetic allies from Japan argued that the China issue was a matter of membership. Peking should be admitted, the Americans argued, but there was no justification for expelling the Taipei regime, even if both governments did claim to be the sole legitimate representative of China. The pro-Peking forces argued that it was merely a question of credentials. If both Mao and Chiang claimed to rule all of China, only one could be right. Accordingly, they maintained, Peking, obviously in control of most of China, should be given the seat; the Nationalists, losers...
...element in the U.S. strategy was its resolution calling for any move to expel the Nationalists to be treated as an "important question," needing the approval of two-thirds of the voting members to pass the General Assembly. Though almost everyone agreed that Peking should be offered a seat this year, many delegations?or so the U.S. reckoned?would be extremely reluctant to put the Nationalists over the side at the same time. The question was: Could the U.S. muster the simple majority of votes necessary to pass the important-question resolution in the first place...