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...guard. The tactics it's using to keep the former British colony in check only seem to strengthen support for its opponents. Last summer, when the Hong Kong government tried to introduce a draconian antisubversion law, half a million people took to the streets. In an attempt to quell the dissent, Beijing allowed the law to be shelved. But many Hong Kongers responded by demanding the direct election of their Chief Executive?currently chosen by a narrow, pro-Beijing electoral college?by 2007, the earliest date allowed by the territory's constitution...
...vase-emblazoned uniforms are the hottest thing to hit the Mesopotamian marshes since the July United Service Organizations tour of California’s recently-inaugurated governor. Officially known as the Archaeological Site Protection Force, this band of former civilian guards represents America’s latest attempt to quell the broad criticism of its failure to protect Iraq’s cultural treasures from being stolen last year. Unfortunately, it is too little too late...
...witnessing the coup d'?tat machine in motion." Yvon Neptune, Prime Minister of Haiti, urging international help to quell an uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
...long list of new public-works projects. But he has struggled to deliver. He is also getting heat from his coalition allies - a disparate mix of post-Fascists, former Christian Democrats and the once-secessionist Northern League - who have been bickering among themselves, and with Berlusconi. His attempts to quell dissatisfaction with veiled threats and a shift of his economic team (but no major cabinet reshuffling) may have only delayed an inevitable confrontation. "While the country shows growing signs of discontent, the government remains consumed with its own internal maneuverings," says an opposition spokesman. Still, with his high profile abroad...
...rocket-propelled grenades, mortar tubes, Strella missile launchers and Kalashnikovs--weapons they say they intend to use against American soldiers. The leader of the group, who says his name is Khaled, 31, claims his men conduct "regular" attacks against U.S. forces. Saddam Hussein's capture has done nothing to quell their deadly ambitions, because they are fired not by loyalty to the old regime but by religious zeal. As his charges scan the night skies for U.S. aircraft, Khaled explains that he receives instructions to attack U.S. forces from fundamentalist imams in local mosques, who "take their orders from...