Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then we heard the words that would set us free: "Dark-skin Blacks." At the same time, we reached out, instinctively, and showed him our nearly-red Black (a former girlfriend once told me I was closer to orange than Black) arms. I had to suppress a laugh, as I wondered if whites are ever identified as light-skin and dark-skin whites...
Most decisive was the reaction of the security forces to Deng's directive. The chief of Beijing's Public Security Bureau reportedly tried to step down rather than suppress the demonstration. Finally, cooler heads prevailed, and a last-minute decision was made to greet the marchers with unarmed policemen...
While admitting that he had reservations about the film "to the extent that it would be exploitative," Ovitz denies that he led a campaign to suppress it. "This movie will rise or fall on its own merits," he says. "There is nothing anyone can do to stop it." Bolstering his argument is the fact that the film, for all its troubles, has found a distributor: Atlantic Entertainment Group, an independent company that has handled such films as Teen Wolf and Wish You Were Here. Some contend that Wired's producers are simply trying to generate controversy over a bad film...
...overriden the recommendations of faculty by denying tenure to critical scholars. Most recently, President Bok again overrode faculty to appoint a new Dean whose stated goal is to "combat" critical views in jurisprudence. Newly appointed Dean Clark also spoke scathingly of Professor Derrick Bell's sit-in protest against suppression of critical views (Bell is one of two tenured Black professors at the Law School). Said Clark, "This is a university--not a lunch counter in the Deep South." President Bok's continued efforts to purge the Law School of Critical Legal Studies (itself an outgrowth of '60s critical thought...
...July 1987 Sri Lanka bowed to pressure from New Delhi and allowed Indian forces to occupy the north and east of the island. Some 80,000 soldiers remain deployed there, trying with limited success to suppress Tamil separatist guerrillas who, ironically, were initially encouraged, armed and trained by India...