Word: expelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban government suggested that it would welcome such overtures. Ford indicated that though he, personally, had nothing against accepting the Cuban revolution, there was nothing that he could do about it--at least not yet--because of U.S. loyalty to the Organization of American States, which had voted to expel Cuba...
...even commendable in its adherence to international co-operation. But in fact, the OAS is not a confederation of equal states, each of them respecting collective decisions, as it would have to be for Ford's statement to make sense. Today, and even more so when it voted to expel Cuba, the OAS is dominated by the United States--the richest American country, the one whose corporations dominate large sectors of the others' economies. And this was particularly relevant in the OAS's expulsion of Cuba, a decision taken at the insistent urging of the United States and in large...
Normally a woman of childbearing age ovulates once every lunar month, an average of 14 days before the expected onset of menstruation. Her ovaries then expel one or more egg cells, ripe for fertilization. An individual egg (ovum) is drawn into the fallopian tube (oviduct) to begin a four-day journey toward the uterus. After intercourse, the husband's spermatozoa swim upstream through the uterus into the fallopian tubes, and if one sperm succeeds in penetrating an ovum, conception has occurred. The conceptus, repeatedly doubling the number of its cells, enters the uterus and imbeds itself in the lining...
...REACTOR FOR EGYPT. Under normal conditions, safeguards are good enough, but the problem is what would happen if the Egyptians should decide to expel the Americans in the way that they expelled the Russians? Then they would have the radioactive materials and no control. This is a global problem, and a world answer must be found...
...were soon felt in Kampala. There was little that Amin could do about the Geneva-based jurists, but he was not at a loss for convenient targets. Accusing the British of instigating the report (the commission's secretary-general is London Barrister Niall MacDermot), Amin first threatened to expel Uganda's 1,500 Britons on 48 hours notice, then backed down from the deadline at the behest of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta. But he warned that "drastic action" would still be taken if Britain's "vicious anti-Uganda campaign does not stop...