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...allocation of funds for strengthening existing structures in areas where earthquakes have been forecast and even requiring some of the population to live in mobile homes and tents when a quake is imminent. Fearful that forecasting could become a political football and that some officials might try to suppress news of an impending quake, the panel recommends that warnings, which would cause disruption of daily routine when an earthquake threatens, should be issued by elected officials-but only after a public prediction has been made by a panel of scientists set up by a federal agency...
...domino theory of Latin America, U.S. policy-makers in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations perceived Cuba to be the first wedge of Soviet-sponsored communist aggression and dictatorship. To stop this Red cancer the CIA was authorized to infiltrate and suppress any government, institution, political party or embassy that supported or was supported by "communists." This task was to occupy Agee until he left...
...junta of Greek colonels who governed Athens and whom the U.S. supported fomented a coup on Cyprus. It was led by 650 Greek military officers commanding the 10,000-man Cypriot national guard. The Turks, suspecting that the intent was to make Cyprus part of Greece and further suppress the island's Turkish minority, attacked and occupied Cyprus, uprooting 200,000 Greek Cypriots, and partitioned the island to their own advantage...
...congeal the already thickening plot: Buddhists v. Christians, Spaniards v. Portuguese, Franciscans v. Jesuits, Protestants v. Catholics. Author Clavell is an encyclopedic chronicler of Oriental lore (his bestselling Tai-Pan was set in Hong Kong), and he lubricates his massive research with regular doses of bloodshed. Readers who can suppress the urge to commit hara-kiri somewhere along the first exposition-laden chapters will get fair value for their money. Shōgun is, all by itself, a relatively cheap summer vacation...
...years Marcos has been trying to suppress the nearly 20,000 Moslem rebels, but his troops have suffered heavy casualties in the unfamiliar terrain; moreover the fighting has imposed a heavy drain on the national treasury. In recent weeks Marcos has questioned the value of the U.S.-Philippine mutual defense treaty. Some observers believe that he wants the existing treaty strengthened so that it unequivocally commits Washington to aid the Philippines if they are attacked and perhaps even provide some help in suppressing the insurgents...