Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statute under which the Administration is seeking Morgenthau's ouster is vague about whether the President has to show malfeasance to dismiss an appointee in midterm. Moreover, Morgenthau just might launch an embarrassing campaign to remove U.S. attorneyships from the patronage rolls. He is known to believe that the jobs should not be political plums, though they now rate among the juiciest. Morgenthau's district, for example, has 70 or so assistant attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney General...
After the confirmation of his ouster, which was reportedly approved by the Politburo, Solzhenitsyn sent an open letter to the union in Moscow. "Wipe the dust off your watches," he wrote...
...pressure to expel Solzhenitsyn from the organization. The move was taken to punish the 50-year-old author for "conduct unbecoming a Soviet writer," for "actively using the bourgeois anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet propaganda," and for failing to combat the use of his name abroad. Since the ouster places a stigma on Solzhenitsyn, it means, in effect, that no Soviet editor would dare accept his works for publication...
...action against Solzhenitsyn will not be final until ratification of the ouster by the Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers. Since some of the writers on the executive committee oppose the ouster, Solzhenitsyn's case may well turn into an important test in the struggle against literary repression in Russia...
...Alois Indra, who won infamy last August as two members of the lone trio of Czechoslovaks who initially cooperated with the Russian invaders. The purges continue throughout the country, and more than 2,000 "control and revision" committees have been set up to oversee the ouster of lesser party officials and state bureaucrats whose liberal tendencies conflict with the policies of the new regime...