Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikita must have sensed the irony in the fact that the Kremlin chose last week as the time to trot him out for his first public appearance since his ouster. Western newsmen were tipped off in advance that Nikita would be available for all to see at a Moscow polling place not a mile from the Kremlin. Sure enough, up wheeled a chauffeured car, and out hopped the familiar figure-not quite as pudgy, not quite as ebullient-but undeniably Nikita Khrushchev. Eager Soviet citizens and reporters swarmed around him, anxious to know how he felt. "I feel just like...
...executive committee also decided to initiate a letter-writing campaign in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Students throughout the Boston area will be urged to write letters to their congressmen and to politically influential members of their local communities calling for the ouster of the five congressmen from Mississippi...
Taylor, who had backed Khanh before his ouster by the Buddhists last year, had insisted on a civilian government that lacked the backing of either the army or the Buddhists-the only real forces in South Viet Nam. Last week the two forces combined, at least temporarily, and the civilian regime of Premier Tran Van Huong folded without a sound...
After hearing of Khanh's plans, Taylor decided that he and Washington had no choice but to go along, and he flew off on a previously arranged "orientation visit" to Laos and Thailand. Next day, Khanh advised Deputy U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson that Huong's ouster would be announced in half an hour over Radio Saigon. Thoughtfully, Johnson suggested that the Premier should be informed too, so he would not have to learn of his downfall via radio. Khanh telephoned Huong, notified him that he was through...
Wawa, it seems, had a role in the recent mysterious ouster of two American diplomats from the fledgling East African republic (TIME, Jan. 22). Some weeks ago, it now appears, Frank Carlucci, U.S. consul in Zanzibar, was talking by telephone with Robert Gordon, U.S. embassy counselor in Tanzania's coastal capital of Dar es Salaam. Their conversation was, of course, being tapped. At one point they expressed mutual regret that the State Department had not sent good wishes to Zanzibar's Boss Abeid Karume on "the twelfth"-the first anniversary of the coup d'état that...