Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Edmund Palmieri, citing cases back to 1804, ruled that the headquarters agreement is a valid treaty that cannot be superseded by the 1987 U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. U.N. officials and the P.L.O. observers cheered the decision, but the Justice Department prevailed on one point: its ouster of the P.L.O.'s Washington office was deemed legal...
...commander-in-chief. Once again the big losers were the Haitian people, who continue to endure one of the world's lowest standards of living (annual per capita income: $333) and who have gained little from the top- level game of musical chairs that began with the February 1986 ouster of Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Said an embittered young woman waiting at a Port-au-Prince bus depot last week: "Nothing has really changed. We remain with nothing." The mood was cautious in Washington, where the Reagan Administration, instrumental in the toppling of Duvalier, has staked considerable prestige...
...hatchet man who set in motion a painful round of layoffs in 1985. Unsurprisingly, he views himself more sympathetically, as a beleaguered defender of traditional news values. His chief enemy, it seems, was Rather. The anchorman was unfailingly polite and supportive in person, Joyce writes, but campaigned for his ouster behind his back. When the antagonism became clear to Joyce's bosses, there was little doubt about which man was expendable. "There are lots of presidents," CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski told Joyce. "There's only one Dan Rather...
...vulnerable to manipulation. And he paints a surprisingly dark, meanspirited First Lady, whose meddling became the "random factor in the Reagan presidency." Regan, who served the Administration for six years, the first four as Secretary of the Treasury, details how Nancy, and not her husband, stage-managed his ouster. His profile of her in For the Record, which Harcourt Brace Jovanovich is publishing this month and TIME is excerpting in the following pages, constitutes Exhibit 1 in the defense of Donald T. Regan...
...United States, in the wake of Noriega's ouster of Delvalle in late February, slapped several sanctions against Panama. These included freezing that country's assets in the United States and withholding millions of dollars in payments the United States makes to the Panama Canal Commission...