Word: dispell
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...order to dispel Mob rumors swirling around Carey, the Teamsters' Independent Review Board ( IRB), the three-member federally created agency that polices the union, released a statement in September maintaining it "has absolutely no credible evidence supporting any allegations" of Mob ties to Carey. But when reached by TIME last week and confronted with the FBI report, IRB member Frederick Lacey, a former federal judge, sounded less absolute. "The matter is still open," he said uncomfortably. "We are awaiting further evidence relating to these allegations." The problem, insiders say, is that the FBI has refused to make D'Arco available...
...troops who did not have telephones, walkie-talkies, flak jackets, tear gas and even batons. Gear was eventually provided by other countries, but not before some of the poorly protected troops died in ambushes, and Somali civilians were killed when soldiers without riot gear fired their guns to dispel angry crowds. The U.N. has yet to organize an efficient communications network or stockpile enough rations. At one point food and water for the peacekeepers dropped well below a week's supply; someone had miscounted the number of troops. "That's a court-martial offense in my country," says...
Washington's newly emerging willingness to distinguish Cedras from Francois does little to dispel suspicions that the U.S. attitude toward some of Haiti's henchmen is not as hostile as American rhetoric would indicate. "Francois is really the major problem," says a Pentagon analyst. Cedras, he says, is "somebody we can deal with." Last week at a press conference Clinton singled out only Francois by name for criticism, not Cedras...
...cliche contends that the Spanish are a proud and passionate people; Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna hardly strives to dispel the stereotype. After a spot of flogging and rape foreplay, loopy Lope really gets the juices flowing with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...
...lecture, "A Vampire of Our Own," Auerbach said she wanted to dispel the myth surrounding vampires, including their most famous representative, Dracula...