Word: quell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north of Saigon. Riot police and armored personnel carriers patrolled the dark and deserted city. Roadblocks were set up on the outskirts, and barbed-wire barricades encircled the sacred Tudam Pagoda. These government security measures were not a precaution against an attack by Communist guerrillas; they were taken to quell demonstrations by Hue's Buddhist population against the regime of Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh...
Portuguese infantry patrols in northern Angola peered at the skies last week and waited prayerfully for the end of the rains. In the third year of their campaign to quell a stubborn native revolt against Portuguese rule, government forces counted on dry weather to throw armored units and paratroops against the African guerrillas, who throughout the rainy season had mercilessly harassed the bogged-down Europeans...
...lingerie led marauding Brown University students to congeneric Pembroke College. Said Dean Rosemary Pierell: "It's the first time in 16 years that a horde of Brown men has managed to reach the upper floors of a Pembroke dormitory." It took Providence police with Birmingham-type dogs to quell the brouhaha elsewhere in town. Eight Brown rioters were arrested, but the chief injuries were sustained by two policemen and a bystander. One cop was hit with a rock and the other suffered the unkindest cut of all: he was bitten...
...with the situation because they had accepted the Governor's assurances that "law and order would be maintained by the state police" is a little hard to believe. Last Sunday was certainly not the time to start depending upon Barnett's pronouncements. Three thousand troops were eventually required to quell the disturbance. Had enough of them been on hand at the University from the start, instead of a mere 400 marshals who were hardly trained or equipped for riot control, the arrival of James Meredith might have been far less bloody...
...terms. Supporters of the teachers' union responded with nationwide demonstrations; at Labé, mobs clashed with the police; in Conakry thousands of demonstrators, some of them students just back from Moscow, attacked the presidential palace with homemade bombs; in the end, Touré called out the army to quell the rioters...