Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels do not appear to have considered very seriously how much the ouster of Arafat could cost the P.L.O. in diplomatic and political prestige. Nor have they acknowledged how vulnerable their organization would become if it were operating solely at the whim of the Syrians. The Israelis, on the other hand, would welcome such a change. Said David Kimche, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry: "As long as the P.L.O. is independent, we have difficulty pinning down the responsibility for terrorism. But if the P.L.O. becomes a Syrian tool, then at least we will always have an address...
...more intriguing were the insights into the events that led to Bishop's ouster and assassination. According to a series of mostly handwritten minutes of the Central Committee meetings of Grenada's New Jewel Movement that took place after July, Bishop proposed that the party take a more moderate stance toward the West. The idea was rejected. Warned one unidentified participant: "If the revolution is turned back now, it has regional and international implications...
...part, Grandmaison blamed his ouster on his colleagues' preference for the electronic media at the expense of an essential, if costly, grass-roots organization. Says he: "A lot of it had to do with my inability to persuade Bill White to make the necessary investment to build a field campaign." The two men began feuding in earnest last month, when White decided to close the California staff office and cut back funds in Wisconsin...
...resolution also condemns Iraqi bombing of civilian targets in Iran. Yet the Iranians, who are angry at France for selling Iraq five Super Etendard fighter-bombers as well as Exocet air-to-surface missiles, were not impressed. Tehran still insists that the price of peace with Iraq is the ouster of the man who started the war, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein...
Democrats last week introduced a "sense of the Senate" resolution, to be taken up next week, demanding Watt's ouster. Republican Senators met for their regular weekly lunch and concluded that they, too, wanted Watt out. It had been thought that dismissing Watt would anger Western conservatives, an important constituency for Reagan. But at the lunch, one Western Senator after another reported that the Interior Secretary had lost his popularity among their constituents, and that appeared to decide the matter. Said one Republican later: "He's gone...