Word: suppressive
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...government faces the unenviable challenge of establishing its own legitimacy in the eyes of ordinary Iraqis at the same time as adopting strong measures to help restore security. Thus, it has talked about adopting martial law, or similar emergency measures that may prove controversial, but which Allawi hopes will suppress the insurgency that has ravaged Iraq for the past 15 months. And the new prime minister also plans to resurrect whole divisions of Saddam's old army to help him do it. The insurgency does not represent the only challenge on the road to elections, however - although the departing...
Died. William Manchester, 82, scrupulous author of thrilling narratives on military and political power, best known for The Death of a President, his 1967 book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy; in Middletown, Conn. Jacqueline Kennedy tried to suppress the book's publication because of the inclusion of some intimate family details but relented when Manchester removed some passages. His works also included acclaimed biographies of General Douglas MacArthur and a projected three volumes on Winston Churchill, only two of which he managed to complete before his death...
...defense had sought to suppress statements that Pring-Wilson made on the morning of his arrest in which he claimed to be an innocent bystander to the incident...
Court proceedings revealed the contradictory statements by Pring-Wilson that the defense was trying to suppress. The night of his arrest, Pring-Wilson called 911 and told the dispatcher that he was “just a fucking bystander” who had witnessed a stabbing...
...motion to suppress claimed that the early statements “were not knowing, intelligent or voluntary”—as admissibility rules require—because at the time they were made the defendant was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a concussion and intoxication...