Word: oustings
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Makarios at week's end appeared to have won the first round of the confrontation. The Greeks, still waiting for his answer, had few options but to try to oust him from office if he defied them; that would provoke Cypriots who support him. "What we have going now," one Western diplomat said, "is a cat-and-mouse game where everyone thinks...
Foreign diplomats reported yesterday that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-lai have successfully crushed a plot to oust them from power in China led by Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...China issue, however, McGovern's faith in the U.N. is absolute. He gives full support to the recent decision to oust Taiwan in favor of Peking: "I am for it. I think the U.N. acted wisely. Both governments agree that there is only one legitimate government. It is simply a matter of deciding which is the true government of China. I think the U.N. chose correctly...
...Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without a license...
...parents of Manhattan's prestigious Dalton School, the very word reactionary is anathema, and some of the methods Barr has imposed on the generally permissive Dalton system in his seven years as headmaster have aroused fierce controversy. Just three months ago, dissident parents mounted a major effort to oust him, and were only narrowly defeated...