Word: quells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bamako was in the midst of student demonstrations, however, and the Traore regime quickly showed that it would use force to quell any disturbance. Faced with the possibility of detention in a Mali jail, Guggenheim and the students decided to abandon the trip north and return home immediately...
...booth which controls the cell blocks of the prison locked the steel doors separating minimum from maximum security and announced that the state police were coming. Prisoners are afraid of state police because the "staties" have a reputation for making them run gauntlets and performing other brutalities after they quell a riot. The ensuing riot was the result of the prisoners' efforts to get back to their cells before the state police arrived. They panicked and broke down the walls separating units of the prison...
...Tanaka appointed Takeo Fukuda, his old rival for the Liberal Democratic leadership, to head the powerful finance ministry. Fukuda, an apostle of fiscal orthodoxy, has so far done little to check the feeling of governmental drift. Although his appointment was widely praised by business leaders, it has failed to quell intraparty squabbling. "All they seem to care about is how it will affect the Upper House elections in July," said one Western diplomat last week...
Seventeen deaths and several injuries resulted when police attempted to quell the student-led demonstration at Athens Polytechnic University. The Greek government has deployed tanks and armored cars to use against the demonstrators...
...fall of 1969 and the White House staff had a problem. During one 30-day period, President Nixon had bombarded his aides with 21 separate memos on unfavorable press coverage of his Administration. His demands that subordinates somehow quell offending journalists and generate more pleasing reportage and commentary set off a frantic scramble. In a memo to H.R. Haldeman, Jeb Stuart Magruder complained that "this continual daily attempt to get the media" was "very unfruitful and wasteful of our time." Magruder had a better plan...