Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, some students say that the Lee incident is merely the latest in a series of attempts by the Law School to quell increasingly outspoken student activism...
...Crimson last spring called for the abolition of the CRR, calling it an illegitimate body used to quell political protest. Today's view, however, claims that illegitimate bodies are acceptable, as long as they handle complaints by both students and faculty...
...Soweto in 1976, that miners strike scheduled for August 25 seems to be a real threat. I mean if all 400,000 Black miners walked out, we'd lose more than half of our exports. And we've only got 275,000 police and military officers. How could they quell a worker uprising much larger than the size of their ranks...
Hoping to quell this mounting unease, Reagan met last Tuesday in Washington with Honduran President Robert Suazo Cordova. After two sessions and lunch, the two leaders emerged on the White House lawn, where Reagan pledged to defend Honduras "against Communist aggression." Suazo said that Honduras had "received security guarantees from the United States." Despite the reassuring words, no new agreements were actually signed...
...leadership easily quell the 10,000 guerrillas of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army who have gained ground over the past two years throughout the southern third of the country. The insurgents, representing the predominantly animist and Christian blacks of the south against the predominantly Muslim and Arab north, have cut off all but air links between the two parts of the country. Suwar al Dahab promptly sent a message to the rebels' chieftain, former army Colonel John Garang, suggesting that he was ready for talks. By the time he did, however, Garang, who has a Ph.D. in economics from...