Word: crackdowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Deng is still in charge was first raised in January, when his protege and handpicked successor, Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, was abruptly ousted after being blamed for disruptive student demonstrations in December. Deng immediately spread the word that he had favored both Hu's ouster and a crackdown against the students, who were demanding more democracy...
...party document made available to Western reporters last week, had been an early critic of the ex-party chief's six major "errors," one of which was that he encouraged too much buying of consumer goods. But China watchers are wondering if Deng is still leading the crackdown or, like Hu, has become a victim of it. Says one Peking intellectual: "At the very least, Deng's recent moves have been forced and involuntary...
...extraordinary show of solidarity with the Chinese intellectuals and students, 160 American scholars appealed last week to the Chinese government to relax its campaign against writers and artists. The petition, which was delivered to the Chinese ambassador in Washington, said the U.S. academics are "deeply concerned" that the current crackdown will "undermine China's effort to modernize its economy...
...state plainly that it will not tolerate any Soviet military base in Nicaragua, or any overt or covert attempt by Nicaragua to attack its neighbors." Now, what exactly does "will not tolerate" mean? One cannot just say it. Carter declared the Soviet brigade in Cuba intolerable. Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around...
...more than one candidate competing for every job. A Soviet editor announced that next year Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel, Doctor Zhivago, would be published in the Soviet Union for the first time. While those measures and the freeing of some dissidents gave reason to expect further liberalization, the crackdown on the refuseniks indicated that, as Ambassador Hartman observed, the Soviets have not yet changed their basic view of the relationship between the individual and the state...