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...other times, Bok uses the University's decentralized structure to avoid issues altogether. In the case of three professors trying to oust a dean, he shuffles responsibility to the Corporation as the body which is hearing the charges. He avoids discussion of SDS and its efforts to get rooms for a national convention at Harvard, saying that it is a matter for the College to decide. Then he quietly arranges for rooms at the Law School to avoid a potential disturbance...
...full Presidium member and gave him the prestigious but honorific title of Chief of State. Finally, Khrushchev gave him power second only to his own in the party. Thus entrenched, and now a master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev slipped into the slot of party chief. Since that time, he has succeeded in outmaneuvering and outdistancing his principal opponents in the Politburo-notably, Alexander Shelepin and Nikolai Podgorny. He has also managed to take over many of Premier Kosygin...
...eruption in 1968, however, that firmly established Shanker as the Don Rickles of the educational establishment. Long annoyed by the city's experiments in school decentralization, which threatened to Balkanize both the schools and his union, Shanker got tough when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school board tried to oust 13 of "his" teachers. He called a citywide teachers strike that closed the schools to their 1,000,000 pupils for 35 days. Since Ocean Hill-Brownsville is heavily black and many of Shanker's teachers are Jewish, hotheads on both sides made ugly charges of racism. Those charges...
...Muskie candidacy, just as much as George McGovern's, is based on an effort to oust the Nixon administration and unite America in pursuing the goals of progressive change in the 1970's. This new course if it is to suceed cannot be based on Feldberg's divisive type of self-righteousness...
What was happening? Many foreign experts believe that Rumanian President and Party Leader Nicolae Ceauşescu was punishing a group of opponents who last summer had participated in an unsuccessful plot to oust him. After Ceauşescu returned from an extended tour of China and the Far East last June, there were rumors about coup attempts in Bucharest. At an all-day meeting of regional party leaders, Ceauşescu was criticized -and reportedly even booed-for having made passionately pro-Chinese statements during his trip that unnecessarily annoyed the Russians. For the moment, Ceauşescu remains...