Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late August, newspaper seizures for the year totaled 291. Since then, up to the time the polls closed last week, there were nearly 200 more, and virtually all victims were anti-Thieu papers. The wonder is that the regime bothers. Because of government corruption and inefficiency, the seizures seldom suppress a paper entirely, and because the Vietnamese press has a longstanding reputation for venality, relatively few people pay much attention to its attacks on Thieu in the first place...
Psychopathic Revulsion. At dawn one morning last week, soldiers began hammering on doors in Belfast, Londonderry and half a dozen smaller towns in Ulster, rounding up some 300 suspected members of the I.R.A. "We are acting," said Faulkner, "not to suppress freedom but to allow the overwhelming mass of our people to enjoy freedom from fear of the gunman, of the nightly explosion, of kangaroo courts and all the apparatus of terrorism." Then in a mild concession to Catholic opinion, he slapped a six-month ban on all parades, including the potentially explosive Apprentice Boys of Derry march scheduled...
...Japanese War and the Korean War. "Several million landlords" died during the 1949-52 land reform, up to 2,000,000 Chinese during the 1958-61 Great Leap Forward, 500,000 during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, as many as 1,000,000 as a result of efforts to suppress minorities in Tibet and other areas, perhaps 25 million in forced labor camps, and up to 30 million in political liquidation campaigns from...
...court affidavit. He said that the people who worked on it were "uniformly bright and interested, although not always versed in the art of research. Of course, we all had our prejudices and axes to grind and these shine through clearly at times, but we tried, we think, to suppress or compensate for them. Writing history, especially where it blends into current events, is a treacherous exercise. We could not go into the minds of the decision makers. We often could not tell whether something happened because someone decided it, decided against it, or because it unfolded from the situation...
Whatever the specific strengths and weaknesses of the Pentagon history, its impact was clearly most damaging to Democrats, but the Nixon Administration's attempts to suppress the report made many Americans wonder about its motives. U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour conceded that "what the Government has done in this case is a terribly unpopular thing. We are villified on all sides." The impending prosecution of Ellsberg is certain to bring more abuse, as well as some praise, to the Administration...