Word: expels
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...bombs exploding in Beirut, one must not forget that the shelling has been brought about by the P.L.O.'s tactic of establishing itself amid the civilian population and refusing to leave the city. The disunity and weakness of the Lebanese as well as their unwillingness or inability to expel the terrorists must also be viewed as some of the factors leading to the present situation...
...popular former guerrilla leader known as Commander Zero. A hero of the Sandinista revolution, Pastora fled Nicaragua a year ago and eventually surfaced in Costa Rica last April. He passionately denounces his former comrades-in-arms as "traitors and murderers" and has called on the Nicaraguan people to "expel [them] from power." For the present, Pastora's strategy is to hope that his re-emergence will lead to the defection of other unhappy Sandinista supporters, and eventually divide the army so that he can come to power in what would amount to a coup...
...Iranian relations. To placate the Shah during a short-lived period of rapprochement betweeen the two countries, Saddam Hussein placed Khomeini under virtual house arrest in 1975. Three years later, as the Shah came under increasing pressure from Islamic fundamentalists operating with Khomeini's backing, Saddam agreed to expel the Ayatullah. It was then that Khomeini moved to France. Today Khomeini refers to Saddam as "the epitome of atheist filth...
Unsettled by this unfavorable attention, the I.A.C.P.'s executive committee voted only to censure, not expel him. In the end, Murphy took the incident as further proof of one of his earlier volleys at the I.A.C.P.: "By your action, you summon up the image of police chiefs as members ol an inferior vocation in public service, fearful of dissent and debate and caught in a web of conformity. In this, you don't hurt Pat Murphy, but you bring ridicule to the calling of police management...
...Israeli and Syrian military forces from the Beirut area, and their replacement by Lebanese army units. An accompanying message from the U.S. to the P.L.O. contained a terse warning-make a quick decision to withdraw from Lebanon or face the fact that Israel would "probably" invade West Beirut and expel the P.L.O. by force. The Israeli army, said the U.S., was "prepared for it, can do it, and is not going to wait forever without resolving the situation...