Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...radioed a pair of U.S. F-15C fighters and asked them to take a closer look. Though there had been no reported violations of the no-fly zone over northern Iraq since January 1993, Iraqi helicopters had been a problem in the past, when Saddam Hussein used them to suppress the Kurdish rebellion that erupted after the Gulf War ended in 1991. The crews of the F-15Cs twice flew past the copters and identified them as Russian-made Hinds flown by the Iraqi military. The fateful, terse order came back from the AWACS to fire. Moments later, the blasted...
...embarrassing enough that a Harvard professor should deign to appear on the same stage with a woman who has made her fortune by persuading people to reveal to national television shameful stories that in a more tasteful age they would have gladly paid copious blackmail to suppress...
...government. The 90-minute program, part of the "American Experience" series, was based partly on The & Abandonment of the Jews (1984) by David S. Wyman, who appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust also attacks President Franklin D. Roosevelt for bending to political expediency in failing to take actions that might have saved more Jewish lives. Keepers of the F.D.R. flame -- notably historian...
...know proper procedure for making an arrest; after all, it's their profession. They are obviously motivated by something other than lack of knowledge about procedure. A racist in a police uniform is no different from a racist in overalls or one in a suit. Why should they suppress their desire to antagonize Black students when they can simply deny it, the University defends them, an "instructive" videotape is made and the case is closed? Guilty officers should be suspended. I am personally appalled that this University would tolerate such injustice...
...campaign to snuff out cigarettes continued to heat up as California Congressman Henry Waxman released a 1983 study conducted by a Philip Morris researcher indicating that nicotine is addictive to rats; the Congressman charged that the firm tried to suppress the report. Philip Morris denied the allegation...