Word: cordons
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...chairmanship of the Texas War on Drugs Committee, Perot supported several unorthodox police procedures. None has generated more heat than his call for a "civil war" against crime and drugs. In 1988 two different journalists wrote that Perot encouraged Dallas cops to "go in ((to high-crime neighborhoods)), cordon off the whole area, going block by block, looking for guns and drugs." When the stories first appeared, Perot was mum -- a telling silence since no one can recall his having ever let a perceived inaccuracy stand uncorrected. Today, however, with such famous civil libertarians as Dan Quayle predicting that Perot...
Still more disturbing is Perot's abiding belief in paramilitary, and often secret, action that is, to put it politely, not overly finicky about staying within the confines of the law. He denies suggesting that Dallas police cordon off sections of minority neighborhoods and conduct house-to-house searches for drugs and weapons, an idea that would seem prohibited by constitutional rules on searches and seizures. But reliable journalists insist that he did advocate such a sweep, and more than once. Moreover, it is of a piece with his openly stated belief that a war on drugs should be fought...
Saddam then tried imposing a military and economic cordon sanitaire. His army has dug in tanks and artillery behind minefields and fortifications along the southern edge of Kurdistan, carefully including all of Iraq's major oil fields. Soldiers have set up checkpoints on the roads, and while they allow local traffic in and out, they confiscate all but the smallest quantities of food and fuel. At the town of Kifri, 96 miles north of Baghdad, in outposts separated by a tense 500 yards., Iraqi troops confront bearded peshmerga guerrillas in balloon trousers and tightly wrapped turbans. "We have been suffering...
...optimism is overblown. The cordon of communist-run industrial towns around Paris has frayed over the past decade as the country, ever more prosperous, moves rightward. In the 1988 presidential election, the Communist Party polled only 6.8%. Nonetheless, even as Soviet totalitarianism self- destructs, President Francois Mitterrand's minority Socialist government depends on 26 Communist deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture...
...machinery of dictatorship. All newspapers except for nine pro-coup sheets were ordered to stop publishing, political parties were suspended and protest demonstrations banned. Muscovites going to work or to shop Monday morning had to maneuver around troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers that were moving to cordon off or seize key installations...