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Browder became so identified with a policy of coexistence, in fact, that the Soviets had no further use for him after the fighting gave way to the cold war, and ordered his ouster. He spent the last quarter-century of his life in bittersweet retirement, first with his Russian-born wife Raissa in Yonkers, N.Y., and, after her death, with one of his three sons (all are professors of mathematics) in Princeton, N.J. Between puffs on his corncob pipe and games of chess, he had plenty of time to field queries from inquiring historians. Asked in 1971 whether he identified...
...also served as a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission from 1957 to 1972 (and as its chairman in 1969). He was ousted from the Commission earlier this year by President Nixon. Observers speculated the ouster was prompted by his constant demands that civil rights laws be enforced...
...dozen banks, is a pale substitute for Wall Street and other centers of financial power. As Vesco's problems pile up in the U.S., even this haven is none too snug. The opposition National Unification Party has already pledged that if it wins in February, Vesco's ouster from the country will be its first order of business...
Some Germans dismiss the Communist youth movement, perhaps too lightly, as "middle class." Says one Social Democrat: "They talk revolution and spend their vacations in Spain and Greece, rather than their beloved East Germany. It is all sheer nonsense." But the radicals' demands are serious enough: the ouster of U.S. forces and a drastic reduction of West Germany's defense budget. Beyond these goals, the left seems to be aiming for an eventual reunification of the two Germanys in which socialism would be triumphant...
...demands at Wounded Knee centered around these three agencies. The militants called for the ouster of Wilson, Pine Ridge BIA superintendent Stanley Lyman, and Aberdeen, S.D., area Interior supervisor Wyman Babby...