Word: expels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the air of Carry Nation axing a saloon, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford last week launched a crusade to expel Justice William O. Douglas from the Supreme Court. Most observers assume that Ford wants to impeach Douglas as a reprisal for Richard Nixon's two Senate defeats in the Haynsworth and Carswell cases. Legal scholars doubt that Douglas' unconventional views and behavior come remotely close to grounds for impeachment. But Douglas is vulnerable to criticism on many grounds...
Economic Shortcomings. The next move will take place when the Central Committee meets in mid-April. If the ultraconservatives have sufficient strength by that time, they may try to expel Dubček permanently from party membership. But even if they fail, it is difficult to believe that Dubček can long retain his diplomatic post in Ankara...
...founded by members of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) in the fall of 1968 after an abortive move at the previous SDS national convention to expel PLP members from...
With those words, Philosopher Roger Garaudy strode defiantly from the platform of the French Communist Party's 19th Congress in Nanterre. Not one of the 960 delegates applauded. They did not expel him from the party, but when the congress ended last week Garaudy was no longer a member of either the Politburo or the Central Committee, on which he had served for 14 and 24 years, respectively. For his outspoken criticism of the Czechoslovak invasion and other Soviet ventures, France's Communists had in effect demoted one of their most distinguished leaders to the rank and file...
...population of 14 million). According to present plans, all membership cards will be withdrawn and, after a gigantic review of every member's behavior during the Dubček era, new ones issued. Who will get the new cards? The ultraconservatives argue that the party should expel anyone who supported Dubček. That, of course, would reduce the party to a skeleton. Echoing Huáak, the party paper Rudé Právo declared last week that there should be a distinction "between those who were misled and those who did the misleading." Similarly, Radio Prague promised...