Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British lawmaker that two suspected Libyan intelligence agents be tried in a third country. But Britain, which has already charged the two men, rejected the offer unless Libyan capo Muammar Gaddafi allows the proceedings on British or U.S. soil. Why's Libya reaching out now? Gaddafi reportedly wants to rid the strapped country of U.N. sanctions imposed in 1992 after his government refused to hand over the suspects...
...oversight committee will be appointed until a replacement is found, a NAACP source has told TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White. The NAACP board meets tomorrow in Baltimore ostensibly to decide Chavis's fate. But White's source says a deal has already been cut within the NAACP to get rid of Chavis. Chavis has came under fire recently because he settled a sexual harrassment suit with money taken from the NAACP. Yesterday, a second woman accused Chavis of alleged improper advances, but later recanted her statement. Still, says White, Chavis' problems lie elsewhere: Chavis has claimed that under him, membership...
...money. The Southside branch, with 20,000 members, is one of the largest in the country. TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White says that this latest news adds to the pressure on the NAACP's 64-member board to fire Chavis at its meeting this Saturday. But, White adds, "getting rid of Chavis would be extremely embarrassing . . . it may well be that even though you have all this pressure, Chavis can survive with a serious reprimand...
...looks like an elaborate game of chicken. From the American side comes a steady escalation of military and political pressures designed to send Haitian Army Chief Raoul Cedras and his cronies this message: We don't want to invade Haiti, but if that's the only way to get rid of you, we will. From Cedras and company comes a series of nose-thumbing moves adding up to this reply: Come on -- we dare you. But the game has not reached the point at which the final collision becomes inevitable; there is still time for either side -- or both...
Others saw him more harshly. Last week, asked why Redstone would have wanted to get rid of Snyder, a source close to Davis compared him to Captain Queeg, saying, "It was a matter of how long before your patience runs out. He got more and more imperialistic." Frank Biondi, the president and CEO of Viacom and the man who fired Snyder, says simply, "Dick Snyder's operating philosophy and Viacom's operating philosophy were just at odds with each other...