Word: squelch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joining the fray from Iran, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini appeared to squelch one of Reagan's last chances to salvage something from the wreckage of his secret initiative to Tehran. Though Reagan announced at his news conference that there would be no more arms deliveries, he expressed a rather wan hope that the U.S. could stay in sympathetic touch with so-called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with...
...Avikson. He noted that the reservists staged work stoppages when their Chernobyl tour of duty was extended from two months to six, and the "air was filled with strong words, words fueled by disappointment, indignation, despair." Despite this harsh picture, the reporting was apparently an officially approved effort to squelch false rumors about even worse conditions...
Clearly the main culprit in the battle for an open decision making process at this University is the administration itself. It condescendingly views student protest as a kind of quaint extracurricular activity which doesn't affect the University. It even tries to squelch participation in its affairs by tampering with elections by its own alumni, as it did this year in the annual vote for the Board of Overseers. (The Board is a 30-member alumni body which technically oversees all decisions by the policy-making Harvard Corporation...
...gain their freedom in South Africa. They fail to realize that white South Africans believe they are as right in what they do, as liberals here at Harvard think their cause is right. The whites, intolerant of criticism and confident that freely-speaking Blacks would have nothing to offer, squelch free speech for Blacks...
...that is the root of totalitarianism. As Harvard approaches its 350th anniversary, I feel that it is time that the members of the Harvard community unite against such attacks on the free exchange of ideas. We must not bow down to the tyranny of radical minorities who seek to squelch opposition, for it is only a short step from "No free speech for the Contras" to "No free speech for anyone." Ronald J. Granieri...