Word: expelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Furthermore, he says, the court process seems to drag on interminably. The suspect in the rape case, for example, remained in school most of the year awaiting prosecution. In April he was apprehended on an assault charge and he finally dropped out of school while officials were preparing to expel...
...visit was mostly a matter of bravado, "rather foolish. I suppose," but he still seems proud of it--he's supposed to have informed an occupier who called him an administration spy that he had "rather more right to be here than you do." The occupiers voted to expel Smithies, but they allowed him to speak first. "It was rather reassuring, in a way," he said, but the occupiers evidently weren't sympathetic--"all I remember just what he said, but the occupiers evidently weren't sympathetic--"all I remember is that it was philosophically weird," one of them said...
...into the compound, and it was not long before many of the foreigners began squabbling over the little food and few comforts available. That dissension continued up to the end of their three-day journey by truck to Thailand. Concluded Schanberg: "If the Communists were looking for reasons to expel us as unfit and unsuited to live in a simple Asian society, we gave them ample demonstration...
...power of Vietnam's symbol of national unity--the monarchy--took over the country altogether. Effectively undermining an already tenuously unified Vietnamese culture, and supporting a small elite of wealthy Vietnamese landlords at the expense of the peasantry. French actions began to inspire the nationalist resistance that would eventually expel both the French and their American successors...
...facilities in Yemen and Somalia, which it has supplied heavily with military hardware. American base rights in Spain and Thailand have been a quid pro quo for weapons. Using arms sales to gain bases, however, sometimes makes the exporting country a hostage of the recipient. Ankara now threatens to expel the U.S. from some of its vital bases in Turkey because Congress stopped deliveries of military...