Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beni eyes only to the Oba of Benin-the titular ruler of the Benis-Omo-Osagie denounces the investigation as a plot to reduce the Benis to political impotence: seven of the province's 20 Cabinet ministers have been named by witnesses as members of the cult; their ouster from the government would obliterate the Benis as a political power. Says Omo-Osagie: "If we are pushed out, the Ibos will come and dominate the place." His followers characterize Owegbe as nothing more than a masonic society: one describes it as a "group of Odd Fellows." The Oba himself...
Thus the Marxist dream of world domination is palpably no McCarthyist mirage. From Indonesia, where government-sanctioned mobs howled for the ouster of a newly arrived U.S. ambassador, to Cuba, where Fidel Castro proclaimed that "the imperialists" will not prevent Red regimes from taking over throughout the hemisphere, it was also becoming clear last week that the U.S. would have to stand increasingly alone against the free world's enemies...
...pronounced Africa today was "exceedingly favorable" for revolution-which to incensed African leaders suggested that Peking was plotting their own downfall. Russia and China both had to write off major investments in Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella, who managed to woo Moscow and Peking simultaneously before his precipitate ouster last June. Still, as the Russians proved when they sent arms to the Congo rebels, both Moscow and Peking continually attempt to influence students, intellectuals, officials...
...market and if growers promise the same wages to all - now $1.40 an hour in California. He refuses, however, to admit the huge numbers that flowed in under the expired law (more than 100,000 braceros worked in California last year), bringing cries from California growers for his ouster. Despite the farm ers' complaints, Wirtz's office said, fewer than 10,000 foreign nationals have been requested under the general immigration law. Some of the crop spoilage was blamed on "riotous overplanting...
This one, according to Premier Phan Huy Quat, was instigated by the same group of dissident Catholic army officers who engineered the abortive coup d'état of Feb. 19-an upheaval that failed in its main purpose, but ultimately led to the ouster of goateed General Nguyen Khanh. Quat claimed that "rebels" this time had infiltrated his bodyguard and planned to assassinate him. Less believable was the government charge that two Viet Cong battalions were standing in the wings, ready to move into Saigon during the confusion that certainly would have followed...