Word: ousters
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The Brown University Faculty Policy Group has appointed a three-member committee to investigate the recent ouster of Chaplain Richard Dannenfelser, known for his liberal activism and innovative sexual counseling...
Once there were three. After Nikita Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, the mantle of Soviet leadership fell to a power-sharing troika: Leonid Brezhnev as Communist Party chief, Nikolai Podgorny as President, and Alexei Kosygin as Prime Minister. Slowly and then surely, Brezhnev emerged as the dominant figure. In 1977, Podgorny was shunted aside and Brezhnev added the presidency to his other powerful post, relegating Kosygin to a much diminished role. Last week the troika became...
Lummis' housecleaning began with the ouster of many old Hughes aides. Using his court-appointed power as sole stockholder, Lummis fired three company directors, including Davis, whom he also dropped as general counsel. Last year Lummis filed a suit against Davis and eleven other former Hughes employees, charging them with bleeding $50 million out of Summa through extravagant salaries, interest-free loans to themselves, questionable investments and perks like company-built homes. Robert Maheu, Hughes' chief lieutenant until 1970, says bluntly: "There has never been any doubt in my mind that Davis and Gay were trying to steal...
Somoza complained bitterly after his ouster that he had been betrayed by the "traitorous" U.S. Still, it was to Miami that his body was flown for burial. It was Miami that had also been his first stop as an exile. But then, fearful that the U.S. might allow his extradition to Nicaragua, he moved on to Paraguay at the invitation of Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. In Asunción, Somoza's flamboyant social life and amorous escapades offended many Paraguayans. His reluctance to invest his hoarded fortune (estimated at $100 million) in the country was also said to have caused...
Also recalled from banishment was Tadeusz Grabski, 51, former Central Committee member and first secretary of the local party in Konin. Grabski had complained bitterly in 1978 of the "chaos and confusion in our economy." That candor, widely circulated in the underground press, provoked his ouster from the Central Committee last year. The reinstatement of Grabski and Olszowski was an implicit condemnation of Gierek's disastrous economic record, marked by a $20 billion foreign debt and severely declining growth in 1979. To compound his humiliation, the Party Leader was forced in a nationally televised speech to praise "those comrades...