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...arrests are part of a continuing government crackdown on suspected Jewish terrorists. Those taken into custody were said to include several West Bank settlers and some reserve officers in the Israel Defense Forces. The police hope that the arrests may shed some light on earlier attacks on Arabs, including the June 1980 bombings that maimed two West Bank mayors. Of the foiled bus attack, Interior Minister Yosef Burg said, "Thank God, the disaster was prevented. Terror produces more terror...
This kind of double standard has become especially glaring ever since the government launched an unprecedentedly severe crackdown on crime last summer. Although 6,000 Chinese have been executed, high-level party leaders continue to escape prosecution, let alone imprisonment. "Is everybody really equal under the law?" asked the People's Daily. Earlier this year, the paper published the shocking story of Duan Yuanlai, former director of the Changde City Tobacco Plant. In 1969 he was charged with murder. A witness's false evidence won his acquittal. In 1978 he was charged with rape, but no action was taken when...
...tale of that struggle is continued in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which seems at first simply a replication of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Again, the Soviet crackdown becomes a watershed in the experience of Kundera's people, making the past irretrievable and the future ominous. Again, the author divides his fiction into seven parts. This time, though, the connections between them are firmer. Four main characters keep reappearing, and their lives, though not always displayed chronologically, assume the extended contours of traditional love stories...
...known for many months what we would do in case of direct Soviet intervention-and indeed there had been a good deal of speculation in public about a variety of sanctions-but there was no certain plan of action in the more ambiguous case of an internal crackdown...
Today's shutdown was part of a larger crackdown started this year by the department...