Word: ousting
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...Rights Worker uniform (blue jeans, t-shirt) and have "hippie communist" hair (i.e., long enough so the scalp doesn't show). When one of these creatures appears in town, locals gather quickly. If he speaks in strange and foreign tongues, he becomes the target of a public drive to oust him. And if he commits the ultimate heresy of talking to or LIVIN' WITH NIGGERS, he is in for trouble...
Rendering unto Moscow. The most telling clue lies not in what the Russians did bring with them to Czechoslovakia but what they did not: a new government. Had the political decision to bring Dubcek under control or to oust him outright been in readiness long, the Soviets would have followed up their efficient military takeover with an equally efficient installation of a ruling order more to their liking. Instead, they placed the country in a state of suspended political animation, letting a surrounded Parliament continue to meet, permitting "detained" leaders to go on bargaining. Having gone all the way militarily...
Dwarf-Sized Man. Since Dubček is unlikely to retreat very far, the only hope that the Russians would seem to have of defeating his program is to somehow oust him as party boss. In the present mood of Czechoslovakia, that would probably require nothing less than a bullet-or the Red army. In spite of minimal concessions, Dubček is not yet in deep trouble with his party and clearly leads a united people. At week's end, Dubček called on the nation to back him with "strong faith in our good cause...
...useless (at worst deeply pernicious) nonsense in courts of law. It is surely non-sense of the most literal kind to argue that a court of law should subordinate the 'rule of law' in favor of more 'fundamental principles' of revolutionary action designed forcibly to oust governments, courts and all. This self-contradictory sort of theory-all decked out in the forms of law with thick papers, strings of precedent, and the rest-is ultimately at the heart of the plaintiffs' case." It was not surprising that Frankel found their case both "unsound" and "untenable...
...uation was brought about by the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which, seizing on an obscure clause in the country's constitution, accused Ro bles of giving illegal support to a can didate in the upcoming May 12 elec tions. Early in the week, the Assembly voted to oust Robles from office, and within an hour formally installed Del valle as Panama's 34th President...