Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news of Yamani's ouster, spreading instantly through government offices, trading floors and boardrooms around the world, set off a kind of mini-panic. Markets careened as speculators struggled to grasp what the departure meant. Spot oil prices first dropped more than a $1.10 per bbl. in New York City and then climbed nearly $2 to about $15.25 by week's end. Prices seesawed in London and Rotterdam. In Washington, a bewildered Reagan Administration official said the firing "caught us all by surprise...
...energy experts pondered Yamani's ouster last week, many rose to the veteran minister's defense. They noted that while he is sometimes viewed as the West's inveterate enemy, Yamani has often taken conciliatory stances. "Since the last few years have seen a deterioration in Saudi revenues, he may have been used as a scapegoat," said Saad-Eddin Ibrahim, a professor of political sociology at the American University in Cairo...
...current ferment is reminiscent of the early 1960s, when Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev allowed the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first detailed description of life in ! the Soviet Gulag. That thaw gradually congealed after Khrushchev's ouster. It remains to be seen how long Gorbachev will leave Soviet culture open to the winds of free inquiry...
While obdurate dissenters will apparently not be spared in the crackdown, church policy has been ambiguous in some cases. Shortly after Curran's ouster, the Catholic University board granted tenure to Canon Lawyer James Provost, whose writings had irked the Vatican. In gaining tenure, however, Provost had to agree to write clarifications of his past support for first Communion before first confession and for giving Communion to some Catholics who divorce and remarry without annulments...
...reason for the ouster was an interview in which Fujio said that the "Korean side has some responsibility" for Japan's 1910 annexation of that country, since Korean representatives had sanctioned the act. He also excused the 1937 "rape of Nanking," during which some 200,000 Chinese were massacred by Japanese troops...