Word: shakeup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policemen were implicated in a burglary ring, had the police of Des Moines been so scandalized. "It's unbelievable," said City Manager Tom Chenoweth. "I've never seen anything like it." The Police Burial & Protective Association issued a statement of repudiation. The police chief promised a thorough shakeup and dismissed three offending policemen...
...strife within the army, two of President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada's top civilian ministers turned up in Kenya within the past fortnight. Shortly afterward, Amin announced that he was giving the rest of his Cabinet a month's vacation-presumably a prelude to a major shakeup. "A human being is a human being," Big Daddy explained, "and like a car he needs refueling and fresh air after working for a long time...
Another object of the shakeup: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, revealed that he had been asked to resign as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission-and that he would do so. The commission, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, was meant to be an independent watchdog agency, scrutinizing progress in civil rights, including efforts of the Federal Government. Hesburgh, who served energetically on the commission since its formation, has been highly critical of Nixon's antibusing positions and the Administration's lethargy in enforcing civil rights laws...
What is at stake in the controversy and the behind-the-scenes struggles for power is nothing less than the entire reform movement in the armed services, initiated by Zumwalt. If he is replaced or even hobbled in his revolutionary shakeup of the Navy, it could well signal an end to the attempts to humanize all three services. That in turn could make it far more difficult to recruit the qualified men who will have to staff the country's all-volunteer army when the draft officially ends in June...
...what would Thieu do? The silence of the U.S. embassy and the presidential palace only deepened the mystery. Saigonese pored over the abbreviated accounts of the talks that were in the tightly controlled press. Rumors flew of an impending coup, of an imminent shakeup of the South Vietnamese army. A report that the government had placed a rush order for 2,500,000 yards of bunting with a Saigon cloth merchant sparked speculation that the rumored cease-fire might really be at hand...