Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole does not share this fear. Reports TIME Correspondent Donald Connery from .Seoul: "The mood at the moment is not necessarily antigovernment. There is a realization that the nation was approaching chaos or Communism before the military coup. Measures taken against corruption are widely approved, as is the crackdown against the black market and at least some of the efforts at improving the economy...
...figuring that it would only defer what they really wanted: a $5 billion across-the-board liberalization of depreciation allowances. Businessmen are also worried about the possibility of higher taxes in January and petty tax annoyances right now. An airline president gripes about the Internal Revenue Bureau's crackdown on convention expenses; a major oil company president is miffed because he now has to pay $500-a-year personal income tax for the use of his company Cadillac...
Behind their new wall, the Communists were busy stamping out the unrest that had swept the nation ever since the Berlin crackdown. Dozens of East Germans went on trial for "insulting the state." Many panic-stricken East Germans who bought up groceries and clothing in fear of war were called on the carpet for hoarding. There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate...
Still pursued with vigor is the crackdown on quack remedies, now under the Department of Investigation. This office does original investigations, cooperates with federal watchdog agencies, and often provides the evidence to get convictions...
...generals were promising a return to civilian rule, but had begun with a crackdown that lumped all liberals with the Communists in a drive against what it called "antistate organizations." More than 3,500 suspects considered to be potential Communists or "leftist hoodlums" were under arrest, and warnings went out to left-wing student groups to keep quiet or else. The censored press was forbidden to use blank spaces or blacked-out splotches that would show that censorship was in effect. The generals and their aides were largely untrained in civil administration, would probably have to turn to the previous...