1. After sparring with Helms over whether the CIA should be involved in quelling domestic protests, the President gets to the point. 2. But after the National Guard was dispatched to campus three times to quell student protests, things changed, he said. 3. Early in the day, the police used tear gas and rubber bullets to quell the protests, but later they turned to buckshot and live ammunition. 4. Hasidic residents complained that the police acted rashly in arresting the patrol members and brutally in quelling the protest. 5. Initially, officials said the guardsmen threw tear gas to quell a protest. 6. Meanwhile, the army is not hesitating to use brute force to quell the protests. 7. The demonstrations were mainly peaceful but in some incidents police resorted to riot tactics to quell protests that threatened to get out of hand. 8. The election was the first of several in which Salinas quelled opposition protests of fraud in a politically expedient but not particularly democratic way. 9. The leaders of two of the most active organizations have been under house arrest in recent weeks as part of a government effort to quell public protests. 10. Troops were called to quell the protest. |