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Koocher has been an outspoken member of the committee since 1973, when at the age of 24 he became its youngest member even. The Blue Cross social worker has been active in coordinating hiring and financial aspects of the school system, and actively lobbied to oust former Superintendent William C. Lannon...
...liveliest in recent years. With a 10-year encumbent no longer in the running, a number of aspiring city councilors have jumped into the race. But be on the lookout for a new slate of candidates representing young, affluent concerns to emerge this fall that could oust one or two CCA or Independent incumbents...
Galina, 43, a dark-haired and vivacious woman who is a doctor: "Gorbachev will have some trouble trying to oust the Old Guard if he wants to put his own younger men in. Unless he is very powerful, it looks as though we must do some waiting before we see results. Russians like to have a strong leader. As one of our poets wrote: 'The more you beat a servant, the more he will love his master.' Gorbachev sounds as if he is to be respected. He must be full of energy and have power behind him to have...
...cause. The Administration would not seek to overthrow the Sandinistas, he explained, if they agreed to "say Uncle" and put in place a more pluralistic form of government that would include the contra rebels who have been fighting the Marxist-Leninist regime. "You can say we're trying to oust the Sandinistas by what we're saying," he noted opaquely, and returned to his oral bashing of the Nicaraguan regime. "I don't think the Sandinistas have a decent leg to stand on. What they have done is totalitarian; it is brutal, cruel...
...message was obviously intended more for Washington than anywhere else. Following a special meeting in the Thai capital of Bangkok, the foreign ministers of six non- Communist Asian nations last week issued an unprecedented appeal for "support and assistance to the Kampuchean people" in the "military struggle" to oust their country's Vietnamese occupiers. To the representatives of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines), backing for Kampuchea these days means weapons. Comparing the Kampucheans with Afghan freedom fighters, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila declared, "How do you expect these Kampucheans...