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EAGER TO FIGHT the "enemy in the rear," Abraham Lincoln took drastic steps to squelch opposition within the Union during the Civil War. Without consulting Congress, and over the objections of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the president in 1861 suspended the right of habeas corpus in parts of the country. Law enforcement officials jailed without due process those suspected of having Confederate sympathies. Lincoln expanded his edict in 1862, and then, with congressional authorization, applied it to the entire Union the following year. By the war's end, the government had imprisoned 13,000 Americans under the president...
...imports with oil revenues. Here, too, Saddam can find ways around the restrictions. For one thing, he confiscated some $1 billion in gold in the Kuwaiti treasury. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been offering him credit. In addition, Saddam runs a police state that can easily squelch discontent about plunging living standards. Adding up all the guesses and intangibles, Western intelligence officials estimate that Saddam can survive the embargo pretty well until some time in the middle of next year, at the earliest -- a long time for the fraying Western coalition to hold together...
Silber's business management of Boston University is also questionable. He managed the school's fantastic explosion by tripling tuition. Silber's political strategy for his expansion plan could be easily described as authoritarian; using secret police-like tactics, he cracked down on student protestors and tried to squelch student free speech. In his drive for power consolidation, Silber alienated students, faculty and staff at Boston University and created an atmosphere of intimidation that prompted several prominent scholars to resign their posts. Such...
...Robinson again--this time on a fake reverse. A blitzing Gordian broke into the backfield and forced Robinson up into the teeth of the Harvard line. As Robinson tried to spin out of a tackle, senior end Barry Littman jarred the ball loose, and Sparks recovered to squelch the threat...
...economist by training, the President-elect, who will take office on Aug. 7, also insists that the U.S. do more to help win the drug war. He complains that unfair tariffs on legitimate exports like coffee and flowers hinder efforts to squelch the drug trade. "The U.S. has to understand we don't want their troops," he says. "We want to be treated fairly as a trading partner...