Word: ouster
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...once proud agency and deepened doubts in some quarters about the Reagan Administration's commitment to environmental protection. Last Monday, President Reagan tersely fired Rita Lavelle, the EPA official who oversaw hazardous waste programs, after she refused to resign at Gorsuch's request. Lavelle's ouster provided a glimpse into the bizarre infighting and bitter policy battles that have given the agency under Gorsuch the ambience of a Borgia palace on the Potomac. Appalled by allegations of perjury, conflict of interest and manipulation of federal funds, three more House subcommittees and a Senate committee joined...
...present Panthers did not waste time with '60s-style protests and sloganeering: last month they blind-sided the city by turning in petitions signed by 35,000 people that called for the ouster of Mayor Feinstein. That was more than enough signatures to force only the second mayoral recall election in San Francisco since...
DIED. Arturo Umberto Illia, 82, courtly, honest and respected President of Argentina from 1963 until his ouster in a 1966 military coup; of lung disease; in Cordoba City, Argentina. A country doctor by profession, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1948 and dared openly to oppose the dictatorship of Juan Perón. On this national reputation, he was elected President, but his ineffectual administration could not reverse the country's economic slide or prevent the inevitable takeover by disgusted officers...
...lackluster early career as a bureaucrat in the Ukraine before being brought into the Politburo in 1960 and into the Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1963. As Nikita Khrushchev's loyal protégé, he seemed his probable successor, but following Khrushchev's 1964 ouster, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev elbowed Podgorny into the largely powerless presidency and ultimately jettisoned him altogether...
Defense Minister Geng Biao's ouster, by contrast, was considered to be politically motivated. After Mao Tse-tung's death in late 1976, Geng, 73, supported then Party Chairman Hua Guofeng, who was later purged, in arresting the so-called Gang of Four. His appointment as Defense Minister early last year was seen at the time as a compromise choice between the Maoist generals and Deng's supporters in the military. The new Defense Minister is Zhang Aiping, 72, a general who has headed the Scientific and Technological Commission for National Defense. One of Deng...