Word: clampdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prime Minister Miki laments that "never before have we experienced so complex and difficult an economic situation as this one." Nonetheless, output is expected to rise 2.2% this year and 5.7% in 1976. That follows Japan's first genuine postwar recession, which was brought on by a government clampdown on demand and credit last year after the explosion in world oil prices sent Japanese inflation soaring to a frightening annual rate of 25%. As domestic demand fell, Japan's aggressive businessmen swiftly expanded foreign sales, helping to right their economy but annoying such hard-pressed trading partners...
...suspended civil liberties, imposed rigid press censorship and arrested at least 20,000 people (some estimates go as high as 60,000), including a number of opposition political leaders and dissident members of her ruling Congress Party. Last week, in the harshest step toward authoritarianism since the original clampdown, Indira rammed through Parliament a bill that would end her current battle with the courts by changing-retroactively-the election laws she had been convicted of violating...
...clampdown on nearly all pay and price increases, with the major exception of unprocessed farm products. The Cost of Living Council is created, with Treasury Secretary John Connolly as chairman, to enforce the freeze. Compliance is widespread, though some unions complain that the rules are antilabor...
...Harsh Clampdown. One reason for Israel's failure to pacify Gaza is the nature of the land. It is an elongated, desperately poor 25-mile finger of desert, which has little more than citrus groves in the way of resources. Some 11,000 Gazans have found work in Jordan's occupied West Bank and 5,500 others in Israel itself. But the Palestinian who "collaborates" with the Israelis is a marked man. Last February, 61 Arabs were wounded when guerrillas blew up the main post office in the town of Gaza where they were cashing their Israeli paychecks...
...arrangements, agenda or policy implications of the summit conference with newsmen. Not only does Peking insist upon secrecy, it was explained, but the Communist world usually takes as officially inspired any speculation in the U.S. press, so a misstatement could torpedo the sensitive talks. Actually, the Administration's clampdown may well have an effect opposite to the one desired. Speculation about the meaning of a major move announced by the President with considerable drama is both proper and inevitable in an open democracy. The unusual blackout could produce uninformed guessing games of even greater danger to successful summitry...