31.   He later founded and headed the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the chief tool used by past military dictators to stifle dissent.

32.   He later founded and headed the once-feared Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the chief tool used by past military dictators to stifle dissent.

33.   He founded the Korea Central Intelligence Agency, the chief tool used by past military dictators to stifle dissent.

34.   He has stifled dissent, censored news media and enforced a blockade on archrival Armenia.

35.   Human rights groups have criticized Nazarbayev for concentrating too much power in his own hands, stifling dissent and failing to put an end to corruption.

36.   In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the United States has made no secret of its concerns that Chavez has tried to stifle dissent.

37.   Many critics of China within the United States consider the arrests to be politically motivated and designed to stifle dissent.

38.   Lukashenko openly praises the Soviet Union and is denounced by Western governments, and has stifled dissent in his impoverished nation.

39.   Media organizations in many former Soviet republics have faced tax probes and legal troubles in recent years that journalists call attempts to stifle dissent.

40.   Niyazov has stifled dissent and cultivated a personality cult around himself.