Word: quelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TEHRAN, Iran--Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi yesterday accepted the advice of Shahpour Bakhtiar, whom he appointed prime minister last week, to "rest and take a vacation" while Bakhtiar tries to form a civilian cabinet to replace the military government and quell the violent protests against the Shah...
...Rain. It also suffered from an insurmountable problem: for the first time American audiences could understand what Wertmuller was saying. Warner Bros., which had plans to finance two other Wertmuller pictures, quietly changed its mind and gave her a map of Rome. One of the few movies able to quell the mind-numbing trend was Paul Mazursky's marvelous An Unmarried Woman; it grossed $62.5 million and made Jill Clayburgh a star. Some pictures did well but not very well, or at least not as well as their backers hoped. Chief among those was The Wiz, the black version...
...Shah, facing the gravest threat to his throne in a quarter of a century, moved swiftly to quell the opposition that has been building against his regime over the past nine months. His policy was twofold: 1) to punish corrupt officials and subversives and 2) to demonstrate convincingly that Tehran's springtime of political liberalization, begun only a month ago, would continue...
...martial law is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. President Washington chose to limit the use of military power when, after dispatching troops to quell the Whisky Rebellion of 1794, he ordered all insurgents to be turned over to civil rather than military courts for trial. But during the Civil War, as he struggled to hold the nation together, President Lincoln introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief...
MANAGUA, Nic.--President Anastasio Somoza used troops, tanks, and warplanes to quell the latest and bloodiest uprising against his rule, but the rebellion against him appears far from over...