Word: squelch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Serbian nationalists last week pressured the central government to firmly squelch the uprising. The eight-man State Presidency promised unspecified security measures. Soon after, troops, tanks and air force jets were deployed throughout Kosovo...
...Squelch the Liberals' Boutique...
...plausibly argue that U.S. Presidents stretching back to Richard Nixon were aware of his drug involvement -- no one more so than former CIA director George Bush -- but looked the other way to avoid losing a valuable source of intelligence. At a press conference on Friday, Bush sought to squelch speculation that Noriega could embarrass him. "The Attorney General assures me our case is strong, our resolve is firm, and our legal representations are sound," the President said...
...Public Forces. And though the Americans are screening former P.D.F. members against "black, gray and white" lists (black representing the deepest degree of involvement with Noriega), they have nonetheless named a former Noriega henchman to command the new militia. He is Roberto Armijo, who helped Noriega squelch a coup last October and participated in the fight against the U.S. invasion...
...insisted that it would be a get-acquainted session without an agenda, but at their meeting in early December he handed Gorbachev a list of 21 American proposals that drew a generally favorable response. Simultaneously, the President authorized U.S. aircraft to go into action in the Philippines, helping squelch an attempted coup against President Corazon Aquino by flying "cover" over rebel air bases and preventing mutineer pilots from taking...