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...came in Poland, the Western press faced a different problem. Scores of journalists, including two TIME correspondents, were already inside the country, but they could not get their dispatches out except by subterfuge. Said Los Angeles Times Managing Editor William Thomas: "We've never seen such a complete clampdown on all avenues of information." Added New York Times Foreign News Editor Robert Semple Jr.: "Even in Iran you could always find a telex somewhere. You at least had two-way communications...
...wake of a sweeping government clampdown on the 15-month-old Solidarity Union movement and the imposition of martial law, the analysts said scenarios ranging from all-out violent confrontation to grudging but peaceful acceptance of the new measures all remain possibilities...
...such celebrated places as Fisk, Morehouse, Tuskegee Institute, Howard University and Spelman College. While the number of black college students more than tripled in the past two decades, the percentage enrolled in black colleges dropped from 82% in 1965 to about 28% in 1981. Now, inflation and the Reagan clampdown on student aid are striking hardest at black private colleges with tiny endowments and at students whose parents have roughly half the income of white parents. Even worse, black colleges have come under harsh attack from a few influential black educators on grounds that they reinforce racism. In an article...
...real target of Sadat's sweeping clampdown is the Islamic fundamentalists, who object to his eagerness to bring Western business into the country and to his dealings with the Israelis. Among the Muslims seized were Omar Telmissani, 75, head of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and Dr. Hilmy Gazzar, leader of militant student groups, along with 28 of his lieutenants. Later, an additional 54 Islamic activists were arrested in Alexandria...
...bond markets, conditions were even worse, as prices plunged. The Reserve Bank's clampdown came at a particularly bad time for the U.S. Treasury. It auctioned $6.75 billion in long-term bonds and notes last week, and the jump in interest rates meant that the Government was forced to offer investors considerably more than had been anticipated: 14.56% on ten-year notes and 13.99% on 30-year bonds. In February ten-year notes were being sold at 12.89% interest...