Word: oustings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Shultz did not say how this could be done. Nor is it likely, on the evidence of the past year, that he knows. Since the U.S. drive to oust Noriega began last summer, Washington has once again demonstrated how the Law of Unintended Consequences can lead to a foreign-policy disaster. Through bureaucratic backbiting, uninformed bluster and gross miscalculation, the Administration did not merely fail to depose Noriega. It also managed to cripple Panama's economy, weaken the local democratic opposition, undermine pro-American attitudes, damage U.S. prestige in Latin America and exacerbate concerns about the stability of the Panama...
...bank reopening is the latest sign that the Reagan Administration's effort to oust Noriega by applying economic pressure is failing to work as planned. The U.S. sanctions imposed last March included a freeze on $50 million in Panamanian bank accounts in the U.S. and suspension of trade preferences on $96 million in annual commerce between the two countries. The moves were expected to paralyze Panama's economy and spark internal pressure for Noriega's departure. But Panamanians are learning to cope with the cash shortage, and the U.S. sanctions may be causing only longer-term damage to Panama...