Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...unrealistic to believe that once someone acquires AIDS, we will ever be able to get rid of it, but we may suppress it and we may stop their ability to transmit the disease," he said. "That's our goal...
There is nothing wrong with protesting against a movie. But while efforts to suppress the film have not been endorsed by the Catholic Church, the Committee to Oust Hail Mary from America and its supporters have done a disservice not only to the general public and to those who wish to see the movie, but especially to people who are offended by its contents. Those who would suppress Hail Mary have distracted debate from the movie's substance and generated a notoriety which will only swell audiences...
Further, there is not yet a clear understanding of whether the Law School is seeking to suppress free speech or irresponsible protest...