Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Khatami is in a bind. Two days day after Iran?s moderate president warned that further democracy protests would not be tolerated, the streets of Tehran are firmly in the hands of militia bands sent by Iran's conservative clerical leaders to crush the pro-democracy protest movement, while pro-Khatami student activists run for their lives. The spectacle of Khatami denouncing the students who?d launched their protest to defend his own reforms from conservative attack captures the dilemma of a man trying to change Iran?s theocracy from within. "Khatami was caught between contending forces...
...charged with implementing these ideas in Kosovo was General Sreten Lukic, a high-ranking member of the state-security apparat and a personal friend of Milosevic's. Lukic boldly described Horseshoe last fall to Western diplomats as a massive clockwise sweep that would finally crush the K.L.A. Lukic told his visitors he hoped to finish the mission by mid-October. But that plan collapsed when it became apparent that the K.L.A., which had become expert at hiding and fighting in Kosovo's rough hills, wasn't going to cave in easily...
...course, he could never be anything but monumental. It is the fate of fathers to be enormous, and the responsibility as well. One must be careful not to abuse one's stature, not to be harsh, not to bully, not to crush. God the Father must have known something of that self-governing caution when he realized that he could never pick on anyone his own size...
...power as mercilessly as Milosevic. In the dictator's best-case scenario, he can hope for continuing control, thanks to a paucity of opponents and the postwar inertia of a beaten population. But if there are uprisings against him at home, he is more than ready to crush them. And while his indictment by the Hague war-crimes tribunal means he can't hope for a cushy retirement in any U.N.-compliant country, there are some nice mountain resorts in Serbia where he could take up hiking...
...They are going to be awesome next year," said Miller. "It will come down to chemistry. But they will have more talent, and they will be very strong. They should crush people...