Word: expels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring of 1977, the Justice Department stepped up its efforts to return Vesco to the U.S. The department withdrew its request for his extradition and urged Costa Rica instead to expel him, hoping to nab him as he crossed the border. The strategy misfired. When Costa Rican President-elect Rodrigo Carazo threatened to cut off the financier's residence privileges, Vesco escaped to the Bahamas, where he now resides, safe from extradition...
...prominent national group moving to expel women? In this liberated...
...house, the lawmakers voted to put Geralds' case before a policy committee. That committee, which began hearings last week, has 30 days in which to draft an expulsion resolution for the full assembly. When polled informally, 73 members−the required two-thirds−say they would expel Geralds immediately. One factor in the minds of many is that this is an election year. Legislators fear that a failure to expel Geralds will rebound unfavorably against them at the polls. Says the house majority floor leader Joseph Forbes, "Fifteen or 16 swing seats are at stake...
...reasons behind my decision was the Soviet attitude to me; but another important reason was that within the strategy I had laid down, no war could be fought while Soviet experts worked in Egypt. The Soviet Union, the West, and Israel misinterpreted my decision to expel the military experts and reached an erroneous conclusion which in fact served my strategy, as I had expected-that it was an indication that I had finally decided not to fight my own battle. That interpretation made me happy; it was precisely what I wanted them to think. A further reason for the expulsion...
...Soviet Union, the KGB attempts on occasion to entrap foreign diplomats and journalists, especially ones it wishes to expel. When he was working for U.P.I., Christopher Ogden, now a TIME correspondent, was invited to a mysterious street-corner meeting in Moscow in 1973. He was offered the "secret plans" for a Soviet troop crossing into China...