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During the past few months, Milosevic has deftly manipulated his supporters throughout Serbia into pressing for the ouster of moderates opposed to tighter Serbian controls over Kosovo. Demonstrations erupted in Serbia and Voivodina, like Kosovo an autonomous province. In Montenegro last week, police used tear gas and nightsticks to suppress a demonstration by thousands of Milosevic partisans...
Estonia's Communist Party boss Vayno Vyalyas gamely sat in on the congress, evidently considering it riskier to suppress the movement than to try co- opting it, especially since one-fifth of the 60,000 who elected the delegates are Communists. Declared Vyalyas: "This is an example of socialist pluralism." And how. Estonia has already announced that its clocks will no longer be forceably aligned with Moscow's, but will line up with neutral Finland, one hour farther west...
...have us believe. A superior comic novelist (his 1976 The History Man may be the funniest English academic novel this side of Lucky Jim), Bradbury is also a hard-working critic, a professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia and, at 55, a man disinclined to suppress the cholers of middle age. Unsent Letters consists of 18 imaginary, therefore utterly forthright, responses to his junk mail...
However incomplete, the emerging understanding of the immune system's role in Type 1 diabetes has led to an experimental treatment. In Canada and Europe, researchers have weaned diabetics from their insulin shots after giving them cyclosporine, a drug used in organ transplants to suppress the immune system. Doses of cyclosporine, which works by dampening T-cell attacks on the beta cells, have provided dramatic results: many patients have been able to discontinue their insulin shots for up to a year. Still, by undermining the entire immune system, cyclosporine leaves the diabetic more vulnerable to other diseases. And when given...
...majority of the incidents," Rabin said about the recent bloodshed, "the confrontations were the result of our initiative, part of an effort to assure a calming of the situation, to suppress the violence...