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Students are also being singled out for a clampdown. All Chinese universities have launched new ideological indoctrination courses with the spring term. Vice Premier Li Peng, a conservative who chairs the state Education Commission, said last week that only those with "political integrity are to be regarded as qualified students." Political tests for students were last seen during the Cultural Revolution. Another top education official called last week for students to be sent to factories and farms to be "integrated with reality and physical labor" -- another Maoist prescription...
...Soviet families. She feared that the current focus on the trickle of returnees will divert attention from the "thousands who want to come here and to Israel." The Soviets last week imposed a new set of regulations on emigration that U.S. officials say could result in the tightest clampdown on emigration in nearly two decades...
Other voting reflected divisions among the bishops. In the second ballot for a new vice president, Law received 39% and Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, a May-style moderate, 34%. Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who has implied that there are similarities between the Pope's clampdown and inquisitions of the past, drew 26%. Pilarczyk eventually won. In elections of U.S. representatives to a Vatican synod next year, moderates and liberals joined forces to elect Weakland and again bypass...
...clampdown came just three weeks after Junejo returned from a trip to the U.S., where he proclaimed Pakistan's return to democracy and emphasized that Bhutto's appeal was fading fast. In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the U.S. hoped for the quick restoration of "peaceful conditions...
...tell federal authorities about more than $1 billion in cash transactions. While the banks were not accused of knowingly laundering money, they admitted laxity in complying with a 1980 rule requiring financial institutions to report any cash transaction involving more than $10,000. At the moment, the federal clampdown is relying on tools like the reporting regulation because there is no law that defines laundering as a crime. Earlier this month the Reagan Administration introduced legislation that would make it a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison...