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...needed to make an example of him." At the same time, the centerpiece of the human rights movement, Peking's famed "democracy wall," came under official attack. Meeting in Peking, members of China's National People's Congress demanded that "resolute measures" be taken to curb activity at the wall, which, they charge, is being exploited "as a platform for a tiny number of people to foment disturbances" and to "plunge the nation into chaos." Some observers fear that that charge could signal a campaign to put new restrictions on democracy wall, the only place in China...
...BOMB THEM. Killllll THEM," they say. The student shouts at them in Italian as he mounts the curb. The drivers are disappointed. They throw a bottle at the student, who is dark and has something burning in his eyes...
...body that in 1969 an American Bar Association commission condemned for inactivity and Ralph Nader's Raiders ridiculed as "the little old lady on Pennsylvania Avenue." Established in 1914, the FTC for most of its history was a largely ineffective agency that rarely used its powers to curb deceptive advertising and to press antitrust cases. In 1975, however, Congress broadened the commission's mandate to investigate and regulate whole industries rather than just individual companies...
...hike to correct Japan's mounting deficit. The deficit, combined with a high inflation rate and a sharp drop in the yen, may have grave consequences for an already strained U.S.-Japan economic relationship. Japan has already begun to stopper its yen drain. These economic pressures will certainly curb Japanese willingness to liberalize import restrictions at a time when John Connally is bellowing about letting the Japanese sit in their Toyotas on the docks of Yokohoma. The only possible Japanese concession to American opposition prevails and cuts tax breaks for big business, special treatment that has given the Japanese companies...
...practical way to curb the cash flow...