This has reinforced fears among Serb refugees that they would risk witch-hunts if they went home.

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Mr Gujral had to promise on coming to power that he would not go in for witch-hunts.

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The New York Times, which is seldom in the vanguard of witch-hunts against Democrats, has already urged him to resign his chairmanship.

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Bush all but said the other candidates, with their instant denials and coy cooperation with the witch-hunts, were taking the easy way out.

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First, any effort to have the IRS police advocacy activities of social-welfare organizations is bound to be clumsy and prone to degenerate into either selective or broad witch hunts.

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