Word: clampdowns
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...Motor Co. is assembling Accord subcompacts in Ohio, and Nissan Motor Co. will build pickup trucks later this year in Tennessee. Growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. may have given Toyota a nudge. The new venture will give the company greater access to the U.S. market. Fearing an American clampdown on their autos, the Japanese agreed to limit exports to the U.S. for the past two years; last week they said they would stick with the 1.68 million-vehicle limit...
...considered a "family" squabble is threatening to become an out-and-out row. On both sides, pride and principles are at stake. In Europe, it is a question of jealously guarded sovereignty and large contracts for industries plagued by unemployment. As the U.S. sees it, however, the Soviet-supported clampdown in Poland demands a united show of Western force just as did Britain's war in the Falklands, during which the U.S. joined an allied embargo against Argentina. Perhaps more practically, President Reagan must maintain face. If he is to placate his right wing, already restive over...
...curb spending and slow the runaway growth of the corrupt and bloated Nigerian bureaucracy. The Shagari government in December proposed a 12% cutback in government spending from 1981 levels. Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls...
Summing up the mood of fear and depression that has gripped the country in the wake of the clampdown, one young Warsaw man said, "There is a lot of talk now among students of a 'lost generation.' We now know that in our lifetime we will not be able to lead a normal life...
...workers." That statement, which is widely believed to have been made by General Wojciech Jaruzelski when workers rebelled in 1976, was often cited in the past year by optimistic Poles who believed that their experiment with liberalization would not end in repression and bloodshed. Despite the fact that the clampdown killed 17 people, by the government's admission, Jaruzelski may have remained true to his pledge-at least in a literal sense. Most of the acts of brutality that have been committed in the five weeks since Jaruzelski imposed martial law on Poland have not been the work...