Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has so far refrained from joining the chorus of anti-Nasser abuse. Significantly, he has also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison...
...armed forces a year ago, sternly announced his intention of indicting such soldiers on a charge of attempting "to demoralize the army for the purpose of harming national defense." He also reactivated an emergency special court for national security that had been set up in 1963 to suppress terrorists of the O.A.S., the secret army organization of French Algerians. Soon afterward, 16 soldiers were arrested. If they are found guilty, they face a maximum often years in prison. Declared Bourges' deputy, General Marcel Bigeard: "The government has now decided to destroy those who openly advocate the destruction...
...biopsy catheter into the right ventricle via the jugular vein, doctors snip a piece of tissue, then compare it with a sample taken at the time of the original operation. If the biopsied tissue shows inflammation-a sign of rejection-the doctors temporarily increase the dosage of drugs that suppress the immune system after transplant surgery...
Franco's entire career, from 1920 until his death, represents an unrelieved campaign against political and social democracy in Spain and elsewhere. His initial fame arose from his part in the 1921 war against tribesmen in Spanish Morocco. In 1934 the rightist Spanish government called on him to suppress an insurrection of miner's in northern Spain; his bloody tactics earned him the title "butcher of Asturias...
...fear of not being reelected, politicians campaign nights and weekends instead of seeing their families. Wives, who quickly learn to suppress public complaints or any opinions of their own, must fight through a screen of legislative aides and political groupies to get at their husbands...