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...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...
...tide of color threatens to engulf Britian." So warns the National Front, a neofascist party whose main goal is to expel the estimated 2 million "coloreds" - Jamaicans, Indians, Pakistanis and other nonwhite former colonials - who have migrated to Britain since 1945. The ten-year-old front mixes crude, inflammatory racism with a dose of ultranationalism (calling for increased defense spending and high protective tariffs, for example). Official membership is only about 20,000, but the front has attracted a following among working-class whites and is the country's fastest-growing political movement. Although it has yet to elect...
...following year he began his campaign to expel from Uganda 55,000 Indians and Pakistanis, most of them small businessmen and shopkeepers who constituted the most stable portion of Ugandan society. Three years later, when a British resident of Uganda, Denis Hills, called Amin a "village tyrant" in an unpublished manuscript, Big Daddy threatened to execute him by firing squad but eventually released him after James Callaghan, then Britain's Foreign Secretary, flew to Uganda at Amin's insistence to negotiate for Hills' life...