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...youth rebellion began on June 16, 1976, when the schoolchildren of Soweto, seething over the inferior instruction known as Bantu education, rose up in protest against the state's edict that their lessons must be learned in Afrikaans, the language of the ruling whites. The initial battles left more than 400 dead, but the uprising was never completely quelled. In 1984 the comrades of the still simmering townships rebelled again, setting off a series of violent protests that killed more than 2,000 over the next two years and prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. The turmoil...
...Union during the Civil War. Without consulting Congress, and over the objections of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the president in 1861 suspended the right of habeas corpus in parts of the country. Law enforcement officials jailed without due process those suspected of having Confederate sympathies. Lincoln expanded his edict in 1862, and then, with congressional authorization, applied it to the entire Union the following year. By the war's end, the government had imprisoned 13,000 Americans under the president's decree...
...express our regret," declared the editorial in last week's Wall Street Journal worldwide, "that we are suspending our remaining circulation in the Republic of Singapore." Daily copies of its Asian edition sold in the bustling Southeast Asian city-state, the piece noted, had already < been cut by official edict from 5,000 to just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued. "We cannot accept...
Since the INS's get-tough edict took effect, the number of Central Americans seeking asylum at the INS processing center near Bayview has plunged from a high of 967 a day to 313 a week. Of these, only three arrivals, or about 1% of the total, were granted asylum. Noting the drop in applications, the INS put off plans to build a tent city to hold as many as 5,000 detainees and cautiously declared the new policy a success...
...most astonishing ideological pirouette was performed by President Khamenei, who had seemingly tried to defuse the crisis a few days earlier when he spoke of Rushdie's possible repentance. But Khamenei sounded almost as fierce as the Ayatullah last week, saying of the death edict, "The long black arrow has been slung and is now traveling toward its target. There is nothing more that can be done." Western governments, he added, had made the mistake of confusing "freedom of expression with the freedom to insult 1 billion Muslims...