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...moment, relief officials on the ground were treating evacuation "as a last resort," said Foa. If U.N. troops do reach Srebrenica, the hope is that they will help quell panic among the population and thus make a massive evacuation unnecessary. They will also serve as what a U.N. spokesman called "the eyes and ears" of the world, and overseers of any laying down of arms. "People don't do dirty things in the night when international observers are walking around," said Foa. "I don't think the Serbs will risk the wrath of the world by moving...
...courses related to Ethnic Studies, which Choi argues are sufficient to quell any need or desire for an Ethnic Studies program or department, lists only two courses which relate to Asian American Studies. These two courses, to be taught by a visiting professor, were postponed until the '93-94 academic year, and no move was made to replace them. Hence, the token courses offered were taken away, by chance, more or less, and there were no Asian American Studies courses offered for the '92-93 academic year--a concrete program would have prevented this...
First reports were that only eight prisoners had been killed Oct. 2 when police stormed Carandiru penitentiary in Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo to quell a riot. But then surviving prisoners began telling investigators and grieving relatives tales of a savage slaughter: prisoners allegedly machine-gunned as they ran for their cells, others gunned down inside their cells by police shouting "Your time has come." Some of the injured were reportedly dragged to a prison workshop, where they were torn apart by attack dogs. Row on row of naked prisoners' bodies were lined up in a local morgue...
Even with Guzman behind bars, the war for control of the country is not over. But Peruvians savored the sudden feeling of relief -- none more so than the autocratic Alberto Fujimori, who has turned his presidency into a virtual dictatorship, partly to quell the revolution. "Our fear was broken from one day to another," was how Isabel Coral, who works with victims of Shining Path violence, greeted the arrest. In their recent year long assault on Lima, the guerrillas had come close to terrorizing the populace into capitulation. Guzman's arrest not only halted that momentum but, more important...
...hand, Chamlong's forces for the first time united students, workers and members of the greatly expanded middle class, proving that newly affluent Thais will no longer put up with military rule as meekly as they have for many decades. And the departure of Suchinda will do little to quell the demands for an investigation into the military's actions. The King, who has no legal power over political matters but is revered by all Thais, may have to step in again in the future to extend his steadying royal hand. (See related story on page...