Word: suppressions
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Encouraged by laboratory results suggesting that the drug could suppress the AIDS virus (HIV) in cells grown outside the body, a team of scientists led by immunologist Gilla Kaplan gave thalidomide to a dozen patients in New York City and Thailand. After four to six weeks of therapy, some of them had gained between 10 and 30 lbs. and their fevers had disappeared...
Gasior's evidence, which she claims shows a concerted government effort to suppress information about just how much U.S.-made war materiel ended up illegally in Saddam Hussein's hands, could help crack the murky scandal known as Iraqgate that dogged George Bush's final months in office. Questions still swirl around the role that Washington and a number of U.S. companies played in supplying Saddam's $100 billion worldwide military shopping spree that led up to his invasion of Kuwait...
...expect much to come of such efforts. Rather, attempts to suppress the trade have shifted to the First World nations that supply the clients. "We live in a world of contradictions, lies and cowardice," says Francois Lefort, a French priest and doctor who has fought child prostitution throughout the world. "This problem is not just Bangkok's, Colombo's, Manila's. It's Paris', Brussels', Rome's. It's the nice, respectable white man who goes down there to molest these kids...
...University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., the former director of the Justice Department's elite Nazi-hunting unit testifies in court that he did not suppress evidence in the denaturalization and extradition trials of Cleveland autoworker John Demlanjuk. Ryan is being investigated as part of a probe by Tennessee Judge Thomas A. Wiseman of the unit's conduct in prosecuting Demlanjuk, who was tagged by the unit as the notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the terrible and arts today on death now in Israel...
...white unions. If the main parties persist in forming a transitional government, warned Groenewald, that could force whites to secede from South Africa. He refused to rule out leading an insurrection. It is an open question, he added, whether white-led government security forces would obey orders to suppress a white rebellion. That prospect worries many. Last week De Klerk acknowledged that he was only informed after the fact when the police cracked down on the militant Pan Africanist Congress and arrested 73 of its leaders. This move nearly threw negotiations off course again...