Word: crackdowns
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...Soviet Union's top tippler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of his closest friends, John Barleycorn, according to Pravda. In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio...
Taxmen figure that the crackdown will bring in only several million dollars at most. But in the process, it will create worry and confusion for millions of taxpayers. Even the office employee who works late and gets money for supper and a taxi home will have to list it as income: late suppers will probably not be taxed; cabs...
Clearly, the Marxist-materialist bosses of Hunan's "people's government" are afraid of ghosts-or of a restless undercurrent of anti-Communism that has resulted in a China-wide crackdown against dissenters of all kinds. At first, ran the Peking account, Taoists Li Kwei-ying (a woman) and Chiang Chang-en were given eight-year sentences. They received death sentences only after Hunan's "masses protested against too light punishment...
...raid was no ordinary police crackdown, but a carefully planned piece of political strategy. The man behind it: War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott, who staged 1955's famed "preventive coup" to ensure constitutional government, but who lately has been showing increasing annoyance at parliamentary foibles. The main target of General Lett's ire is the opposition National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), of which Tenorio is a prominent member. The U.D.N. deputies have taken advantage of congressional immunity to insult high army brass in speeches; allied with other blocs in Congress, they have also sabotaged President Juscelino Kubitschek...
...critical days of the Hungarian revolution last November, the hospitals of Budapest were the scenes of many grim dramas. When the hated AVH police came out of hiding and joined the Soviet tanks in their savage crackdown, they shelled wards filled with children and wounded. Hospital courtyards were packed with the bodies of dead Freedom Fighters. Last week, for some unfathomable reason, the Kadar government in its first show trial decided to base its case against the Freedom Fighters on an incident that occurred at Domonkos Street hospital during these tense, terror-packed hours...