Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government's crackdown came as no surprise to most Israel-based journalists. In recent weeks they have been shooed away from refugee camps and villages by soldiers waving pieces of paper that said CLOSED MILITARY ZONE. Photographers and television cameramen especially have been subjected to a campaign of intimidation. On Jan. 27, members of a CBS television crew were attacked by troops in the Gaza Strip after they filmed soldiers beating a Palestinian youth. On Feb. 5, two foreign photographers driving in the West Bank were startled by a senior I.D.F. officer pointing an automatic weapon at them and shouting...
...program, approved two weeks ago by the National Drug Policy Board, chaired by Attorney General Edwin Meese, is part of a larger Reagan Administration antidrug crusade known as "Zero Tolerance." The crackdown reflects the Administration's new "user accountability" strategy, which seeks to get occasional or moderate drug users to kick the habit by increasing the likelihood of some kind of penalty. The goal is to cut down on the flow of drugs into the country by curtailing domestic consumption. "If people know they will be arrested for bringing a gram of coke into this country, they will think twice...
...have sought assistance from Protestant church groups in their efforts to obtain exit visas. At least 100 such individuals have been arrested, according to church officials. Last Sunday police surrounded East Berlin's Sophienkirche, one of the city's largest churches, subjecting worshipers to intimidating identity checks. The new crackdown follows a drive in January in which some dissidents were "exiled" to West Germany as punishment. Officials have evidently decided that the sweet prospect of such punishment merely encouraged the estimated 50,000 would-be emigrants, most of them not overtly political, to become more vocal in their efforts...
...Armenians may take to the streets again if he doesn't grant them some concessions. It is doubtful that Gorbachev will agree to redraw the boundaries, which would only encourage similar demands by other nationalities. Nor, if he can help it, is he likely to resort to a military crackdown that would tarnish his reform image at home and abroad. Perhaps his greatest advantage is that the Armenian people remain relatively loyal to the Soviet Union and seem to trust him personally...
Thanks to a weakened dollar, U. S. manufacturing comes back. -- Fighting for Federated. -- A crackdown by cashmere cops...