Word: suppressive
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...Constitution Square was the scene of occasionally violent anti-American demonstrations, and a mob of 15,000 had to be forcefully prevented from storming the U.S. airbase on Crete. The murder of Ambassador Davies seemed to have a sobering effect, however, and Caramanlis deplored "this sad event," promising to suppress acts of violence and anarchism in Greece itself with "merciless severity." To show that it was not blaming Greek-Cypriot authorities for the murder, Washington immediately dispatched William R. Crawford, who was Ambassador to Yemen, to take Davies' place...
...trial of seven other Nixon aides (see cover story next page). It was not known just how damaging to the President's cause the withheld tapes might be. But Nixon, tempted to turn them over to avoid a confrontation with the courts, made the final decision to suppress them after spending two entire mornings listening to them...
...Where the prosecutor's suppression is deliberate, by which we include not merely a considered decision to suppress, taken for the very purpose of obstructing but also a failure to disclose evidence whose high value to the defendants could not have escaped the prosecutor's attention...
DERSHOWITZ: When the prosecutor's suppression is deliberate and includes not merely a considered decision to suppress taken for the very purpose of obstructing...
DERSHOWITZ: I did not intend to accuse the government of making a decision to suppress for the purpose of obstructing...