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...wife and her chief allies two years ago against "forming a small faction" that would attempt, in violation of party unity, to seize power for itself. When Mao became critically ill, said the editorial, the radicals' "attacks on the party became more frantic and their attempts to usurp the position of the supreme leaders more hurried." Thus Hua's feat of "smashing their plot" saved "the revolution and the party...
...chose Peking as the place to get back into the headlines. The feeling, even among former conservative Nixon supporters, was that the ex-President had been guilty of a gross impropriety in going to China in the first place, and that he had compounded the offense by trying to usurp the foreign policy role reserved for the President and the Secretary of State...
...July 24 vote on aid to Turkey [Aug. 4], the House allowed 223 political naivniks at one blow to usurp foreign policy prerogatives of President and Senate, gravely impair the defense postures of both NATO and the U.S., drive away our staunchest ally, and seriously reduce the potential warning time that may literally spell life or death for millions of Americans in event of nuclear...
...Board of Inquiry, after deciding that at least three of the four bishops had willfully violated church law, tossed out the charges anyway. Its reasoning: whether a bishop has a right to "usurp the proper functions" of other authorities is a doctrinal issue, not a legal one. A "doctrinal" trial can be ordered only by a two-thirds vote of the nation's bishops - an unlikely prospect indeed...
...took all of those elements combined to usurp Adolph Rupp's hegemony on national titles at UK. It will definitely take more than Wooden and Syracuse coach Roy Danforth (who incidentally, applied for Bob Harrison's job here two years ago) can muster to deter the squads Rupp's successor Joe B. Hall and UL's Denny Crum (Wooden's former assistant) take to San Diego...