Word: ousting
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...Ukraine, the son of a rabbi; his mother was shot during a pogrom. During World War II, Korff was a member of a group that bribed the Nazis to allow some Jews to leave Germany. After the war Korff was involved with the terrorist Stern gang, which fought to oust the British from Palestine. In 1947 he was arrested by the French for allegedly taking part in a bizarre plot to bomb London with propaganda leaflets attacking the British stand on Palestine. He denied any wrongdoing and the French later released him without trial...
That decision led the president to fire the Justice Department lawyer and oust his two superiors. It resulted in Nixon bowing to public pressure and releasing some of his subpoenaed tape recordings to the federal court. As a consequence of the firings, the House of Representatives began the first serious impeachment inquiry in more than a century...
Much of Chavez's trouble stems from an aggressive and sometimes violent drive by the Teamsters to oust the U.F.W.A. from the vineyards. But in addition, a growing number of Chicano farm workers who still revere Chavez have become disillusioned with the U.F.W.A. as a union. A major cause: poor administration by incompetent union officials of the hiring halls that the U.F.W.A. set up to break the power of unscrupulous labor contractors...
...response to army demands for higher pay, the Emperor had earlier been forced to oust his old Cabinet and name a progressive-minded diplomat, Endalkachew Makonnen, 46, as Prime Minister. The military's success in getting what it wanted apparently served as a goad to other dissatisfied Ethiopians. In early March a general strike paralyzed Ethiopia's cities for four days and cut the country off from the outside world. The international airports in Addis Ababa and Asmara were shut down and the Red Sea ports were closed. Food and fuel shortages spread as truck drivers stopped working...
Ujifusa said the report of the House Judiciary Committee, which is now investigating Nixon for impeachable offenses, will be crucial to the success of the drive to oust the president. If the report supports impeachment, he said, then many members of the House may be unwilling to take the risk of stopping the impeachment effort...