Word: crackdown
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...getting the pigskins' genetic sequence right. In recent years, DNA evidence has also been instrumental in identifying human remains. Authorities established a massive genetic database following the Sept. 11 attacks, and DNA science helped give closure to the relatives of victims of Argentina's "dirty war," the bloody crackdown by military rulers in the late 1970s and early '80s. Among them is Hugo Omar Argente, whose brother Jorge was a victim of a 1976 dynamite blast. "They called me on the phone and said the test results had identified him," he told a reporter. "I just cried and cried...
...Read "Cambodia's Child-Sex Crackdown...
...Tehran Tiananmen? The harsh language used by Ahmadinejad and the Revolutionary Guards to describe opposition protests - and their invoking of the specter of an Eastern European-style "velvet revolution" backed by the West - appeared to be generating a narrative that would justify a bloody crackdown, a massive use of military force that would terrify the opposition into submission. Clearly the limited violence unleashed by the Ahmadinejad camp thus far has failed to intimidate Mousavi and his supporters. But while it would almost certainly empty the streets, the "nuclear option" of a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown would be a potentially fatal...
...Iranian mind to what they stand to lose, they're going to have to see that the economic price goes up dramatically from where it is right now," he explained. But to make sanctions work, countries like Germany, China and Russia would have to join in an economic crackdown. To get those countries on board, Ross wrote last year, "there may be value in enlisting Israel to send a high-level delegation privately to European capitals to make the point that while others feel they can live with a nuclear Iran, Israel does not have that luxury." The implications...
...restruct VERIFIED DEATHS RT frm Iran: 12 students reported killed in #iranelection crackdown...