Word: ouster
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That could well be a violation of irs rules that prohibit tax-exempt organizations from transferring assets to private individuals. It also calls into question Gingrich's claim that he's no Jim Wright--the Democratic Speaker whose ouster he spearheaded--because he never sought to line his own pockets. After taxes, his royalties would have stuffed his pockets with something like $300,000--the amount of his fine. Maybe he should hand it over. If nothing else, it would prove that even when you can't count on the rule of law in Washington, there's always poetic justice...
...LEBED'S OUSTER...
Watching events from Washington, the Clinton Administration expressed surprise only at the timing. They, like many of their Russian counterparts, had viewed Lebed's ouster as only a matter of time: his ambition was too big to coexist with Yeltsin's, they thought. And Yeltsin, the officials added, was not one to tolerate a rival center of power in his administration. U.S. intelligence analysts, however, found no credible evidence that Lebed had been trying to incite a mutiny. And they, like the Russian media, noted that the increased security measures announced by Kulikov after his public allegations against Lebed never...
President Clinton's handling of the recent crisis in the Persian Gulf, for example, was entirely appropriate. Those who call constantly for the ouster of Sadaam Hussein seem oblivious to the first rule of containment strategy: thou shalt not create any power vacuums. If we remove Hussein, who takes over? There is no question that an unduly weakened Iraq would summon Iranian intervention...
Well, we'll see. American officials neither accepted the half-baked deal Milosevic proposed nor believed he would deliver on it, insisting that nothing less than Karadzic's complete ouster and arrest would do. But the U.S. is desperate to find a solution that will help ease the White House out of an ugly dilemma...