Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interrupted by cheers from the audience. Clinton said he would support the manager's ouster. "He's not my city manager. I didn't bring him and I'll be happy to close the door behind him," he said...
...Senate blamed the President for the current debacle, charging him with "counting exclusively on a military solution" to solve "a war with many political characteristics." Thieu, the resolution said, was guilty of "abuse of power, corruption and social injustice." Though the resolution did not specifically demand Thieu's ouster, more than 20 of the 41 Senators voting for the resolution called in their speeches for the President to leave office. Viet Nam's ranking Catholic, the moderate Saigon Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh, agreed with the Senate and prayed aloud that Thieu would resign...
What the NLF and PRG will do after they take Saigon is as hard to judge as the current state of Da Nang and Hue--any judgment has to be based on NLF statement and past actions. The NLF has said repeatedly that it favors the ouster of Thieu and an immediate tripartite government in South Vietnam and continued North Vietnam control of be the North. That system, however seems likely to be only a temporary one what Vietnamese needs is a unified socialist strong based in cooperative rural communists where still liberties are preserved. There is nothing...
...become sympathetic to the Khmer and they, in turn, have given him at least tacit support. In a series of pronouncements from Peking during the last few years, Sihanouk has indicated, in phrases reminiscent of Nixon, that he would like to return to Cambodia after Lon Nol's ouster as a kind of self-styled elder statesman. The Khmer have given little indication of what role they expect Sihanouk to play, but it seems that their current support is part of a long-term strategy of building a popular front including patriots loyal to Sihanouk...
...supposedly elected by the 241 full members of the Central Committee, in practice he is designated by 27 men, members of the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat. In the past, this elite has scarcely been inclined to invest real power in any single individual. The death or ouster of every top leader in Soviet history has been followed by a long period of "collective leadership" until one man sufficiently consolidated his position to take over fully. Although Brezhnev became party chief after Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, he did not actually assume complete personal power until five years...