Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what he considered a "simple assignment": to cover the visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Very quickly, says Moyer, "it became obvious that the story was the cry for democracy in Tiananmen." His assignment stretched into weeks, until the fatal night of the military crackdown. "No picture is worth risking your life for," says Moyer, "but at night everyone just went out, snapping away, oblivious to the dangers...
...collectors aren't expecting to get a lot of voluntary compliance from their crackdown. Nor are they expecting dealers to start charging a 5 percent sales tax to their buyers...
...common problem" of drug smuggling from South America. That conciliatory line was a far cry from his flat denials in the past of charges by Washington that some Cuban military officials were part of the narcotics pipeline to the U.S. As a first step in his country's crackdown, Castro said, Cuban pilots will begin shooting down any unidentified airplane flying over the island that ignores orders to land...
Since the brutal Chinese crackdown in Tiananmen Square, many in Hong Kong have concluded that they would rather be anywhere else when Beijing assumes control of the crown colony in 1997. But Britain has slammed the door, saying it has no room for the colony's 3.25 million British subjects. And while the well educated and well off have found the promise of a warm embrace in other Western countries, Hong Kong's working class has felt trapped. So last week, when Singapore announced that it would admit 25,000 white- and blue-collar workers over the next eight years...
BEIJING--China denounced the seven leading industrialized nations yesterday for their "gross interference" in calling on Chinese authorities to stop the crackdown on participants in pro-democracy protests...