Word: quell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emergency regulations imposed to quell racial unrest have allowed police to ban all outdoor rallies; anti-government meetings in churches, universities or private homes; speeches they consider subversive; and news coverage of protests and police action. They also permit police to detain anyone without charge...
Strikes are not technically illegal in the Soviet Union; the Marxist tenet that they are unnecessary in a proletarian paradise has not kept them from happening. Until the Gorbachev era, Communist rulers used bullets or gifts of consumer goods to quell unruly workers. But under the impact of perestroika and glasnost, work stoppages have become part of the economic landscape...
...have been hanging in Washington's state legislative building since 1981, but most lawmakers have never seen them. Commissioned at a cost of $100,000, The Twelve Labors of Hercules touched off a storm of complaints over their graphic depictions of what critics called kinky sex and death. To quell the controversy, officials covered the murals with gold- colored drapes in 1982. Meanwhile, artist Michael Spafford filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the removal of his work...
Whatever the cause, mobs of mostly young Uzbek men went on a rampage against the Meskhetians, hunting them down in their homes and beating them with iron bars and stones. Moscow rushed 9,000 Interior Ministry troops to the scene in an attempt to quell the violence. But fighting erupted in the city of Kokand, 40 miles west of Fergana, where a mob numbering 5,000, some with automatic weapons, attacked government buildings, blocked railroad tracks and set fires...
...contradictory signals emanated from a country whose secretive rulers prize political stability above all else. Perhaps the most curious sign involved the army. On Monday seven retired generals, including former Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, signed a letter to the party leadership demanding that the P.L.A. not be used to quell the uprising. "The army must absolutely not shoot the people," it read. Two days later, the military's Liberation Army Daily quoted a letter from the P.L.A. general staff (also dated Monday) urging troops to study carefully a speech by Li Peng denouncing the uprising as a counterrevolutionary threat...