Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aimed at producing an orgy of nihilism, anarchism and disobedience." Student unrest, however, was only part of the story. During the past sev eral years, the long quiescent opposition to Franco had taken on sufficient stat ure to cause serious worry among the conservatives in the regime. When the crackdown came, it was characteristically harsh...
...high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went out of his way to stress two points. One, hardly necessary for him to state to such a group, was that the officers were justified in their crackdown...
...Crackdown on Dissent. If the Soviet leaders do win some respite from international tensions, they will still have their hands full at home. An upsurge of intellectual dissent, of which Novelist Alexander Solzhenitzyn has become the symbol, has prompted a crackdown that is increasingly reminiscent of Stalin's day (see box). The economy is doing well, but not well enough. Last week, as the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met in the Great Kremlin Palace Congress Hall to consider the 1969 budget, the country's chief planner rattled off an impressive list of economic achievements (1968 income...
...current case, Heyns' stand against political interference earned faculty support. His open-door policy of reasonable dialogue disarmed the dissidents and won broad student sympathy. His crackdown on the sit-in demonstrators pleased the regents without antagonizing the moderate majority of students. The radicals might yet find a way to use the unresolved Cleaver case to inflame the university. But the encouraging point of the restraint at Berkeley-reinforced by rejections of confrontation politics this fall at N.Y.U. and Columbia-may be a growing student awareness that change can be more quickly achieved by cooperating with tolerant administrators than...
...from camp days, the critic Lev Kopelev. Even scientists were suddenly no longer immune. Some top mathematicians who signed petitions were thrown out of the party. In the Soviet Union's finest research center, the largely self-governing scientific city of Akademgorodok in Siberia, there has been a threatening crackdown on modern...