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Fretful foreign governments wondered whether Gorbachev would countenance % bloodshed to suppress the independence movements. A chilling indication came early Sunday morning. Thousands of unarmed Lithuanians, singing freedom songs, tried to prevent Soviet troops and tanks from taking control of a television tower 3 miles outside Vilnius. Shots were fired, and at least 7 people were reported killed and 70 injured. At least two of the dead had been crushed beneath the treads of Soviet tanks...
...shortcomings of the congressional hearings, together with the latest ruling, suggest that the day of congressional hearings starring criminal suspects is passing. Says House Republican leader Bob Michel: "Congress ought to suppress its interest in public hearings if you want people to go to jail." Presumably, legislators want to punish the guilty at least as much as they covet the publicity yielded by splashy scandal investigations...
...longer possible for [the South African government] to rely on sheer brute force" to suppress the Black population, he said. "They are forced to listen to our needs," he added...
...Israel has followed harsh policies in the West Bank and Gaza, particularly in efforts during the past three years to suppress the intifadeh. But its sternness cannot be compared with the tales told by Kuwaiti refugees about looting, rape, torture, beheadings and other summary executions by Iraqi soldiers. That the outside world has to rely on refugees' stories to learn what is happening in Kuwait is itself significant. Reporters and photographers roam the Israeli-occupied territories, albeit with many restrictions imposed by the army, and report what they see and hear; they are not allowed into Kuwait...
...People who attempt to suppress certain ideas deprive the other students of the liberal education they came to Harvard for," said Kenneth D. DeGiorgio '93, co-founder of the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM), a campus conservative group...