Word: suppressant
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Gorbachev and his reformist allies in Eastern Europe have managed to suppress at least one monster -- the state's capacity for terrible violence against its citizens. The Chinese and, until last week, the Rumanians were not so lucky. The Chinese students carried portraits of the Soviet leader, and they were shouting, "In Russia they have Gorbachev; in China we have whom?" The yin and yang of 1989: tanks vs. glasnost, the dead hand of the past vs. Gorbachev's vigorous, risky plunge into the future. Gorbachev is a hero for what he would not do -- in fact, could...
...revolutionary renovation of socialism, of our entire society." What this grand but vague formulation has meant in practice is the scaling back of coercion and the introduction of an unprecedented, until recently unimaginable degree of pluralism. As he put it in his 1987 book Perestroika, "It is possible to suppress, compel, bribe, break or blast, but only for a certain period...
Rumania's hard-line leader tries to suppress dissent by ordering a massacre, but a popular uprising drives him from office. An ugly-duckling auto, the Trabi, gets a moment of glory...
...bonus, buprenorphine seems radically to suppress the urge to take cocaine, which is abused by an estimated 70% to 80% of heroin addicts. Methadone also tends to reduce coke use, but less dramatically. While methadone may wean half of those treated from cocaine, buprenorphine could slash the number of coke abusers to almost nil, says Yale researcher Thomas Kosten. A Harvard study of rhesus monkeys habituated to using coke found that daily doses of buprenorphine led the monkeys to kick the habit completely...
...grisly fantasy of a different sort may soon be conjured up out of the frustration of ultra-rightists in the Salvadoran army and government who are considering a campaign of terror to suppress the insurgents. Between 1980 and 1985, confirmed killings by death squads linked to the military or National Guard liquidated 0.3% of El Salvador's population, and many far-right members of the President's ARENA party would like to resume that strategy. The rightists have reportedly stockpiled enough weapons and ammunition to pursue a terror campaign for several months after a cutoff...