Word: ouster
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...many of whom were forced to live on welfare. Goodwin helped found a rival organization, the Council on Aging, which obtained $5,000 from the Federal Government to begin to meet the needs of the majority of some 2,500 townspeople 65 and older. He fought successfully for the ouster of a town manager who opposed the hiring of a staffer for the council. Now local government puts up $17,000 a year from which the Council on Aging pays a full-time coordinator and helps finance such services as "Meals on Wheels...
...Africa's blacks lost a leader, but gained a martyr. Protests over Biko's death were widespread, this time among whites as well as blacks. At a rally inside the Johannesburg city hall, 2,000 members of the opposition Progressive Federal Party called for Kruger's ouster and repeal of the internal security laws. Kowie Marais, a prominent former judge and onetime member of the National Party, declared that Biko's death had made him a "complete and unequivocal enemy of the security legislation in South Africa." Even the pro-government weekly Rapport editorialized that...
...constitution is Article 118, which allows for creation of a First Vice President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The provision may allow Brezhnev, 70, to take over the presidency without having to assume all the administrative and ceremonial duties carried out by Nikolai Podgorny before his ouster from the Politburo earlier this month (TIME, June 6). The constitution is also the first in Soviet history to assert the primacy of the Communist Party in the political life of the U.S.S.R., although this has long been manifestly the case. This declaration could strengthen Brezhnev's authority over...
Indonesia, in fact, has become a last frontier of the Pacific. The boom is now a decade old, and Suharto can claim much of the credit for it: shortly after Sukarno's ouster, the government passed laws encouraging foreign investment. Since then, vast sections of a breathtakingly beautiful country have been transformed-though not always in a flattering way. Huge development projects have brought roads, electricity, hospitals and schools to the hinterlands. Nonetheless most of Indonesia remains as it always was: a verdant wilderness populated by agrarian peoples...
...down at home, Mengistu-like other African leftist leaders-has attempted to consolidate his power by cozying up to the Soviet Union. He was especially anxious to court the Kremlin in view of the rapid cooling of the U.S.'s interest in Ethiopia following the junta's ouster of the Emperor, who had received $600 million in American aid between...