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...Porter was asked to give a speech about competitive behavior couched in terms of NFL and USFL," said Laura Steinberg, Porter's attorney. "In that talk Professor Porter had been asked what ways NFL could suppress the USFL...
...principles, Gaddafi eliminated all private enterprise, all rental properties, and froze bank accounts. He mandated the creation of so-called People's Committees, which were meant to institutionalize the Koran's concept of consultation. Today the committees run virtually all aspects of Libyan daily life and help suppress any opposition to the regime. By 1978 Gaddafi declared that Libya had become the first jamahiriyah, which means a state without a government, or a people's state. Gaddafi subsequently resigned from his official positions and took for himself the title of Leader of the Revolution. Despite the vagueness of the designation...
...feels that she has been psychologically or physically taken advantage of, but she forces herself to suppress the feelings of guilt and anger associated with that victimization, experts say. She says to herself that she is being hysterical, that it was her fault, that she didn't say no forcefully enough...
...move caught Chun's opponents by surprise. Only days before, the President had unleashed police to suppress a petition calling for constitutional reforms that was being circulated by the New Korea Democratic Party, the largest opposition group. The government's position: no discussion of the subject until after the 1988 Seoul Olympics and presidential elections. Last week, however, Chun changed his mind. At lunch with Lee Min Woo, leader of the N.K.D.P., and other politicians, he offered to consider writing a new constitution, though on his own terms...
...United Democratic Front, a multiracial coalition of anti-apartheid groups, said lifting the emergency would be an "acknowledgment that the emergency has failed to suppress the desire of our people to be free...