Word: ousting
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...also reflect a sharp difference of opinion within the S.A.O. itself. The S.A.O. leadership is largely composed of French-born ex-officers and extreme right-wing politicians to whom Algeria is only a weapon in their attempt to oust De Gaulle and capture power in France. The bulk of the S.A.O. rank-and-file sympathizers, however, are pieds-noirs who have always hoped somehow to remain in Algeria. Apparently they are finally recognizing that their hope can be realized only through a deal with the F.L.N...
...appreciate-and reciprocate. And Buckley came to have need of Kennedy's help. Last year Mayor Wagner, whom Buckley helped get elected mayor initially in 1953, fell out with New York's borough bosses, including Buckley. Re-elected to a third term, Wagner vowed to oust Buckley both from the House seat and his Bronx bossdom...
...presbytery moved in on this stronghold of fundamentalism and stirred up a fuss that threatens to shake the entire church. By a vote of 73 to 27, the presbytery-exercising its power to intervene in hiring-firing matters that are normally left to congregations and their elders-voted to oust Broadway's minister, the Rev. Stuart Merriam, 38. Also removed from office were the church's ten pro-Merriam elders, who were replaced by a presbytery-appointed commission. Merriam was asked to remove his personal belongings from the church-and even to refrain from attending Sunday services there...
...Havana convention of workers' organizations from all over Cuba in 1939 to form the C.T.C. For eight uninterrupted years, Peña and his fellow Communists controlled the confederation. But in 1947 anti-Communist Labor Minister Carlos Prío Socorrás began a campaign to oust Peña and his fellow Reds from control of Cuba's labor movement...
...some, Amendola is not a liberalizer but merely an opportunist who seeks to oust Togliatti. "He wants neither a Stalinist nor an anti-Stalinist party." says one critic. "He wants a nice, homemade Communism that knows how to play the game in the Italian manner-that is, with a card up its sleeve...