Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government still strongly backs Thieu. For one thing, in the midst of the current North Vietnamese offensive, he seems to represent the only viable focus of political stability in South Viet Nam. For another, his ouster-or his resignation-would be a considerable embarrassment to the Nixon Administration. Nonetheless, Nixon's most recent "two-point proposal" to Hanoi -to end all military activity in Indochina within four months if North Viet Nam accepts a cease-fire and releases the American prisoners of war-did not include a declaration of support for the present South Vietnamese government. As part...
...1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime in a variety of cultural-political assignments...
Powell countered with charges that the ouster had been prompted by racism, and quickly went back to the voters to win reelection. He returned to Congress in 1969, and began paying his fine in monthly installments. He showed up for only nine of 177 roll calls that year, and when asked about his chronic absenteeism quipped: "Part-time work for part-time pay." But his days as a political power were numbered, and in the 1970 Democratic Party primary he finally lost an election-to New York State Assemblyman Charles Rangel, who easily defeated the Republican candidate the following fall...
Last week the poly-Papadopoulos added another title. He brusquely de posed General George Zoitakis, who had been Regent and acting head of state since King Constantine fled the country following an unsuccessful countercoup. The ouster of Zoitakis was voted unanimously by Greece's 17-member rubber-stamp Cabinet last week, ostensibly because the Regent had refused to approve a new law increasing personnel in the security forces and national fire department. Within half an hour Papadopoulos had been "requested" to succeed the general as Regent. Under pictures of Constantine and his Danish-born Queen Anne-Marie, Greece...
...protect its reputation for accuracy, RFE's broadcasts, if anything, err on the side of caution. When reports of Alexander Dubcek's ouster first came from Prague over a Western news ticker, RFE waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe...