Word: ouster
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...confusion. But it soon became clear that although several African nations (Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R., Mali, Morocco) quickly joined the Russians in recognizing Gizenga's "government," that was where Moscow's success stopped. Mali and Guinea spoke up halfheartedly for Hammarskjold's resignation (but not his ouster); most shared the view of one Asian who admitted, "We're all at fault for not giving Hammarskjold a stronger mandate...
Equal Treatment. There was sufficient pretext to demand Colmer's ouster: he had given his lukewarm support to the anti-Kennedy electors in Mississippi. Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons. In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive...
...OUSTER THREAT against Airline-Pilot Boss Clarence N. Sayen fizzled as he was re-elected union president...
...perjury and also charged with accepting a $2,000 campaign contribution from an officer of the school custodians' union (unbeknownst to the union members). A grand jury also found that three other board members were guilty of impropriety, suggested that they resign. One did; the other two face ouster suits. Dan Schlafly has also gone to court to oust another building commissioner, who went from board member to the $15,000-a-year commissioner's job, a maneuver that Schlafly considers poor policy...
Next, in classic revolutionary style, Kongle took to Laos' newest radio station, just built with U.S. aid funds, to charge that Premier Somsanith had "exchanged our country for American money." He called for a neutralist policy 'leaning toward neither the free world nor Communism," and demanded the ouster of the 125-man U.S. military training mission. Hopefully, he added: "I suggest everybody clap and cheer...