Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Stanford, Lowenstein went to North Carolina State in Raleigh where his activism and involvement with students in the racially tense years between 1962 and 1964 brought calls from the President of the State Senate, among others, for Lowenstein's ouster...
Bowden's departure as Commonwealth Secretary to become chairman of Britain's Independent Television Authority removed a leading opponent of any British deal with embargoed Rhodesia (see following story"). Douglas Jay's ouster as President of the Board of Trade-a post equivalent to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce-showed that Wilson is determined to pursue British membership in the Common Market, which Jay bitterly opposed. And by keeping James Callaghan as Chancellor of the Exchequer against the expectations of many political analysts, Wilson again signaled the West's financial community that he stands...
Bogunovic's ouster is a loss for China-watchers everywhere-capitalist, Titoist, Moscow-revisionist. They had come to rely on him for perhaps the most accurate and detailed dispatches out of China. In 1960, he first reported the sure sign of a Sino-Soviet split: an exodus of Russian technicians. In 1966, he was the first to report the downfall of the once-powerful Peking mayor, Peng Chen. While other China-based correspondents hesitated, he reported flatly that Lin Piao had been picked as Mao's successor...
Since the Paulists' ouster, delegations from their parish have met twice with the bishop, who refuses to reverse the decision. What most disturbs supporters of the four priests is their conviction that Gorman's explanation, whether justified or not, skirts another reason for the firing: the interfaith popularity of the Paulists had proved too much for the 75-year-old bishop and other ardent Romanists in his diocese...
...figure. But in Russia's painful move from a malevolent monolith to a more responsible member of world society, he was essential. His Cold War contemporaries described him variously as a Red Hitler and a Jolly St. Nik, a shoe banger and a shrewd geo-politician. Before his ouster in 1964 by less colorful but more pragmatic men, Khrushchev had justified at least some of those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down from the Cuban missile crisis after rashly getting into it; most important...