Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Casino owners normally check up on the honesty of their dealers. Private detectives and closed-circuit TV monitoring of the tables are standard practice. But the second crackdown, and its attendant publicity, sent tremors of anxiety through the Nevada casino world. "We have a fortune tied up in the business," said an executive of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. "What's the percentage in risking it all-for no reason at all-when we can protect our investment and make a very nice return on it just playing it straight...
Poles caught driving while tiddly not only face jail and fines but must attend lectures that damn the old devil drink. In Czechoslovakia, the crackdown is aimed as much at those who sell booze to drivers as at the drivers themselves; a Czech motorist in search of a nip must thus park his auto well away from the tavern and make his approach by foot. West Germany's ten years of breath testing by police has given rise to a new industry that produces lozenges and mouth sprays to mask alcoholic fumes in the breath...
...crackdown on drug use by hippies--if it is necessary, and if that is what the Mayor is really concerned about--would be better served by a lot less bluster and a good more sober investigation of the extent of the problem...
...killed. A few weeks later, in a cemetery near Acapulco, another murder victim was no sooner in the ground than guns started blazing among the mourners; two people were killed. Six more died recently after a shoot-out over a land dispute. The incident that finally brought the arms crackdown came last month when two rival union factions shot it out in Acapulco, leaving 33 persons dead and 27 others near death with critical injuries. One woman caught 67 bullets in the back...
...many people," said Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at its annual meeting in Boston last week, "want to make the Negro 'behave' but do not want to give him justice. They think that riot prevention consists of crackdown laws and crackdown police...