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That seemed to be the Ky government's solution last week for the demonstrations triggered by the firing of I Corps General Nguyen Chanh Thi last month. A harsh crackdown on the demonstrators-mostly students-would only play into the hands of the waiting Buddhists, who first rose to power when the Saigon government invaded their pagodas three years ago. Moreover, the anti-Ky groups had only the vaguest of aims-and the mildest of manners...
...paralyzed, and the lives of most adult Paulistas were in some way affected. Government officials, police, labor leaders and representatives of the industry met round the clock in secret emergency conference. Last week the crisis was quietly resolved. In return for unspecified concessions, the police agreed to end their crackdown on jogo do bicho-the animal game-the largest permanent floating numbers game in the world...
...rumors that several other poets and critics had been arrested, including Essayist Aleksandr Yesenin-Volpin. Obviously, the KGB had successfully blocked the route through which "Abram Tertz" and "Nikolai Arzhak" smuggled their works to the West. But, while it may stay the outflow of underground literature, the latest Kremlin crackdown cannot permanently stop...
...copy on Latin America, along with several columns of chitchat entitled "Chispa-zos" (Sparks), "Machetazos" (Machete Blows) and "Consultorio Sentimental" (Advice to the Lovelorn). Its uncompromising editorials, written in both English and Spanish, champion causes dear to its readers: a civilian review board for the police department; a crackdown on slumlords, credit gouging and labor racketeering...
Last week Marcos announced that the police and armed forces have so far seized nearly $1,000,000 in contraband. Indicative of the crackdown, the price of a pack of smuggled U.S.-made "Blue Seal" cigarettes in Manila has climbed in the past month from the normal 500 to 650, suggesting a distinct and abrupt shortage...