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...judge's fight for his $89,500-a-year job will now be decided in the Senate, where it will take a two-thirds vote to oust him. The politically astute Hastings will be arguing the case of his career. Already he is toning down his charges of racism and stressing instead his assertion of innocence and the issue of fairness. He may try to convince the Senators of his claim that the proceedings smack of double jeopardy. He can also be expected to underline the fact that the last federal judge to be removed by the Senate, Harry Claiborne...
...This incident proves you can't tell Congress anything without it leaking," said a senior White House aide last week, after the Washington Post reported that President Reagan had authorized unspecified covert action to help oust Panamanian Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. Not so, said both Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and ranking Republican William Cohen. The two Senators got questions from reporters even before the committee was briefed on the finding. That, they charged, meant the Administration had divulged the information to "set up" the committee as being unable to keep secrets...
Faculty members and students who oppose the cutbacks have mounted a drive to oust the school's president, Ed Roach, whose appointment was pushed by Pickens. If that fails, Pickens' critics plan to make his heavy-handed treatment of the school an issue in this year's state elections. Pickens dismisses his antagonists as a "few noisy malcontents." Says he: "We're only trying to create a quality school to keep our top-notch young people in the Panhandle...
Last week in New York City, he unveiled a far-reaching civil lawsuit, charging 26 reputed mobsters and the Teamsters' 18 top executives with making a "devil's pact" to subvert the nation's largest union. Filed under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the suit aims to oust the union's entire leadership, replacing it with a court-appointed trustee who will supervise the "free and fair" election of a new executive board...
...enhance morale in an army whose power and prestige have been diminished by Chinese leaders determined to de- emphasize military might in favor of agricultural and industrial reform. After consolidating his power in 1978, Deng Xiaoping used a mixture of cajolery, cash incentives and hard-knuckle politics to oust military officers from top provincial and party posts. Since 1985, 1 million men and women, including 455,000 officers, have been mustered out. Though still 3.5 million strong, the PLA has lost its position as the world's largest military organization to the 5.2 million-member Soviet armed forces. Last week...