Word: quell
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...police were unprepared to quell the ghetto's rage...
...Friday, however, Bush finally conferred with black leaders at the White House, and when he addressed the nation on TV that night -- his eighth pronouncement in roughly 48 hours -- he at last got the message about right. He announced steps to quell the already fading rioting, including federalization of National Guard units in the area. And he again unequivocally condemned the disturbances, flatly calling some of the rioters' acts "murder...
ORIGINALLY APPOINTED by former President Derek C. Bok as a conservative to quell the liberal Critical Legal Studies scholars, Clark is too partisan to stop the faculty infighting at the Law School...
...first distinguished himself as a mediator in 1967, when looting and burning broke out in the ghettos of Detroit. Vance had just resigned as Deputy Secretary of Defense because of a ruptured disk. President Lyndon B. Johnson asked him to take command of the troops he was sending to quell the riots. Vance's back trouble was so incapacitating that he had to take his wife Gay with him to tie his shoelaces. His management of that crisis became a model for leaders in other cities during those long hot summers...
...stiffer battle in June. He could have depicted Peres as a left-winger who would negotiate away too much. But Rabin is a hero of the 1967 Six-Day War who, as Defense Minister from 1984 to '90, reinforced his tough image by employing harsh tactics to quell the Palestinian intifadeh. While he advocates trading parts of the occupied territories for peace and opposes the expansion of Jewish settlements in those areas, no Israeli mistakes him for a dove. Rabin will try to convince voters that he alone can achieve peace, and he is expected to make so strong...