Word: suppress
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...never applied for an operating license. But school founder Li Dan says he applied repeatedly. He suspects the school was shuttered because it was getting publicity. "The minds of the local Henan officials are very closed," says Wan Yanhai, a Beijing AIDS activist. "Their first impulse is to suppress information...
...tendency on the part of some Presidents to behave like monarchs, sometimes with the cooperation of Congress. The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited "false statements" that might "impede military success." During World War II, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to use sedition charges to suppress black newspapers, claiming they undermined the war effort with reports of racial dissension and demands for civil rights. It took Chief Justice Earl Warren's Supreme Court on March 9, 1964, in The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, to finally declare unconstitutional the Sedition Act of the Adams Administration...
...government faces the unenviable challenge of establishing its own legitimacy in the eyes of ordinary Iraqis at the same time as adopting strong measures to help restore security. Thus, it has talked about adopting martial law, or similar emergency measures that may prove controversial, but which Allawi hopes will suppress the insurgency that has ravaged Iraq for the past 15 months. And the new prime minister also plans to resurrect whole divisions of Saddam's old army to help him do it. The insurgency does not represent the only challenge on the road to elections, however - although the departing...
Died. William Manchester, 82, scrupulous author of thrilling narratives on military and political power, best known for The Death of a President, his 1967 book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy; in Middletown, Conn. Jacqueline Kennedy tried to suppress the book's publication because of the inclusion of some intimate family details but relented when Manchester removed some passages. His works also included acclaimed biographies of General Douglas MacArthur and a projected three volumes on Winston Churchill, only two of which he managed to complete before his death...
...motion to suppress claimed that the early statements “were not knowing, intelligent or voluntary”—as admissibility rules require—because at the time they were made the defendant was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a concussion and intoxication...