Word: quelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALTHOUGH the government finally released the principal student leaders on October 5 (as many as a thousand activists are reportedly still being held), this move did little to quell the dissent. For the students, together with a wide range of broadly-based interest groups, focused their attention on a grievance which they all have in common: the War. On October 11, the Student Committee for Human Rights- together with the Committee of Women's Action for the Right to Live, the National Movement for Self-Determination, and the High School Teachers Organization- organized a conference of more than 1000 delegates...
...Canadian government, in an unprecedented move designed to quell Quebec's secessionist Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), yesterday suspended civil liberties and arrested over 250 FLQ members and sympathizers...
...BOMBS: To top off a bad week, a young man later identified as a construction worker from Northern Ireland stood up in the visitors' gallery of the House of Commons, shouted something about Belfast, where British troops have used tear gas to quell rioting Catholics and Protestants, and hurled two canisters onto the floor. The bombs rolled and bounced around, spewing dense clouds of tear gas and setting off two small fires. Members and visitors dashed retching from the floor, strewing papers right and left. Afterward, nobody seemed able to agree on just what the man had said. Some...
...Chad government claims the strife is nothing more than a tribal dispute and Chad President Francois Tombalbaye has called the insurgents "incipient bandits." But sources say that 2.000 French Foreign Legionnaires-veterans of the Algerian war-would not have flown in to quell a minor tribal flare-up. The war is now waging in most provinces and has considerable support throughout the country...
...pique, he quits the committee and goes to work for an Old Left group of factory workers. He is expelled from the university for unspecified reasons, then allows himself to be drafted into the Army. He discovers that his unit is going to be sent in to quell a riot in a neighboring town, and so he deserts. Back in the university town, he falls in with a kind of surrogate Weatherman type who keeps taunting him by saying, "You got to have action, right? A little action, huh?" With him, in the film's galvanic last scene...