Word: clampdowns
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Harsh Clampdown. One reason for Israel's failure to pacify Gaza is the nature of the land. It is an elongated, desperately poor 25-mile finger of desert, which has little more than citrus groves in the way of resources. Some 11,000 Gazans have found work in Jordan's occupied West Bank and 5,500 others in Israel itself. But the Palestinian who "collaborates" with the Israelis is a marked man. Last February, 61 Arabs were wounded when guerrillas blew up the main post office in the town of Gaza where they were cashing their Israeli paychecks...
...arrangements, agenda or policy implications of the summit conference with newsmen. Not only does Peking insist upon secrecy, it was explained, but the Communist world usually takes as officially inspired any speculation in the U.S. press, so a misstatement could torpedo the sensitive talks. Actually, the Administration's clampdown may well have an effect opposite to the one desired. Speculation about the meaning of a major move announced by the President with considerable drama is both proper and inevitable in an open democracy. The unusual blackout could produce uninformed guessing games of even greater danger to successful summitry...