Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Beginning Backfire. Brazil's city terrorists have long been trying to provoke the generals into the sort of crackdown that could lead to chaos and revolution. In response, the regime has set aside the constitution, fired the legislature, ruled by decree, tortured suspected terrorists and canceled the political rights of more than 1,000 opponents. But lately the terrorism, which has cost nearly 50 lives so far, has begun to backfire. A growing number of Brazilians are outraged not only by the guerrillas, but also by foreign criticism of the generals' methods...
...good toys," said an executive of Ohio Art Co., maker of the cap gun cited by FDA. "We're not manufacturing anything with the intention of hurting a child. We are concerned with safety." Actually, the industry has little to fear in the way of a general crackdown; the Government has moved with a caution bordering on lethargy. Since the safety statute was passed eleven months ago, FDA and its parent, the Department of Health. Education and Welfare, have been working out generous compromises over hazardous products rather than banning them outright. All together, FDA has talked manufacturers into...
There has been "virtually a blackout of news" about the anti-American unrest in both the South Vietnamese and American press, Frederick said. "Political repression is increasing. It is inevitable that a crackdown is going to begin...
...month for the use of an office. But all these organizations-and others such as SDS and the November Action Committee-use University lecture halls for meetings. It is sensitive issues such as these the University will have to settle to assure its tax exemption against any IRS crackdown...
...crackdown on the Spectator has several other student papers and universities worried. The Stanford Daily, which receives a subsidy and free office space from that university, said the university has asked them not to dorse any political candidates this fall. A spokesman said they probably won't, but "only because we don't like any of them anyway." The Daily Dartmouth, a tax-exempt organization which endorsed Hubert Humphrey for president in 1968, has decided not to make any more political endorsements until the Spectator case is settled...