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...Uberfretndung [foreign saturation] is treason to our youth and the heritage of our forebears," rants a pamphlet trying to drum up a national referendum to oust the Ausländer. A secret organization that calls itself the Delta Group has threatened "subversive action with methods borrowed from the Fascists" to rid Switzerland of "undesirable foreign elements." Last week Genevois were being exhorted to vote against a "monstrous" city-council housing project for the personnel at the old League of Nations building, which "would lead to unbridled proliferation of foreign functionaries and their privileges...
...meantime, Jagan fumes that the elections were an "imperialist plot" to oust him. His People's Party, which still controls 24 of the Assembly's 53 seats, continues to boycott the legislature and threatens renewed violence. In the past few weeks, bands of extremists have been roaming the countryside, derailing trains, cutting telephone wires and setting scattered fires in the sugarcane fields. This week Britain's Colonial Secretary Anthony Greenwood is scheduled to pay his first visit to the colony, and the British Army garrison is braced for whatever else Cheddi and his followers may have...
What could be alluring enough to oust 210 Harvard undergraduates out of bed at 9 a.m. to wait in line in front of the Athletic Office for as much as an hour and a half in freezing weather? Intellectual curiosity? Beer? Pot? The Harvard basketball team...
Angered by the G.O.P. moderates' drive to oust Dean Burch, his hand-picked Republican national chairman, Barry Goldwater flared to a friend last month: "I may not be able to keep Burch in, but I'm sure as hell not going to let Rockefeller name Ray Bliss." Last week Barry strode onto the sunny patio of his Phoenix home to name Ray Bliss. Grimly Goldwater explained that at this week's meeting of the Republican National Committee in Chicago Burch could not expect the resounding vote of confidence he needed, and he would therefore resign to avoid...
...letters and personal visits. The climax came in Sāo Paulo last March, when Doña Amélia's women staged an anti-Goulart "March with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers and was a factor in convincing Brazil's military to oust Goulart. A day after he fell, Doña Amélia did even better, drawing a record 1,000,000 people for a "March of Thanksgiving...