Word: suppressibles
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...could ever blackmail Madonna. Indiscretions other stars would pay to suppress she is happy to exploit. A stormy marriage to Sean Penn, a brisk fling with Warren Beatty, the teasing hint of a tryst with Sandra Bernhard, MTV's banning of the gender-blender Justify My Love video: no problem. Every fresh outrage is a soaring career move. Last week Madonna made the front page of the New York Daily News by giving a chatty-sassy interview to the gay biweekly The Advocate. She gets tabloid treatment -- just as much as she wants -- in slick magazines. New York, People, Vanity...
Turkey's problem is that it already has 7 million to 14.5 million Kurds on its territory. For a decade, Turkey has been trying to suppress Kurdish agitation for autonomy in its eastern provinces. Ankara believes even an autonomous Kurdish region in the area would seduce Turkish Kurds into sedition and secession. Many Turkish military men argue that Saddam is using the refugees to take revenge on Turkey for standing with the coalition. "If Saddam wanted to annihilate these people, he could have done it easily," a Turkish officer allegedly said. "He has not done it. He is pushing them...
...artists who are suing the NEA have a right to their own ideology. So do those who fund them. If these disagree, no business will be transacted, but no one is attempting to suppress the other. There is a world of difference between refusing to buy a book and burning it. The sooner the artists realize this, the sooner they will drop these unjustifiable censorship lawsuits that make a mockery of all sincere struggles for artistic and moral freedom...
...answer almost certainly is no. Doubtless Schwarzkopf's troops could have destroyed more of the troops and armor that Saddam is using to suppress the revolts that broke out almost as soon as the war ended. But that would have meant continuing a horrible "turkey shoot" of fleeing Iraqi forces after the war had effectively been won. The allies' goals were to drive Saddam's forces out of Kuwait and cripple Iraq's offensive military capacity. Both had been achieved before the 100 hours were...
Many talk about the army and the KGB as though they were monolithic. Actually, they are as divided as the rest of society. Because of those divisions, neither the military nor the KGB is a realistic instrument for a would-be dictator to suppress opposition throughout the country...