Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papandreou's case, the precaution did no good. Anticipating a crackdown, "the Old Fox"-as he is widely known in Greece-slipped out before his arrest a recording of a ringing anti-junta speech to Britain, where the BBC's Greek-language broadcast beamed his defiant words into sets all over Greece...
...Federal Firearms Act is even more useless. It really keeps no one--even a criminal--from buying a gun, since there is no means for assuring that the name given by the buyer is correct. The license fee for dealers is a token $1 per year. Until a recent crackdown by the government, many gun fanciers used this portion of the act to declare themselves "dealers" and receive discounts from wholesale gun houses...
Avatar's lawyers had subpoenaed DeGuglielmo to clarify motives behind the City's crackdown against Avatar. He testified in the trial of 32 Avatar salesmen, including seven Harvard students, charged with selling obscene literature...
...military officers, who for years have had a monopoly on ministerial portfolios. But a fast shuffle alone is unlikely to satisfy the workers and students who chanted "Change, change" at Nasser. They demanded, among other things, freedom of the press, creation of additional political parties, and a crackdown on the widespread government corruption that was uncovered in the trials of the military brass. Such reforms would, of course, be difficult for Nasser to undertake with out running the risk of losing control of his tightly centralized government. Even so, Nasser, who last week went with other officials to pray...
...emergency patch of blue, though it is at least that. Last week he gave out the figures for February, and they seem to bear out the point. The number of robberies had bobbed back up from 163 to 207. But the rate did not go up in the crackdown areas; all the increase was in previously low-crime areas. Headley thinks that means that the crackdown has driven some criminals into new territory. The obvious conclusion: intensified police work can make a dent in crime but it is no substitute for sufficient numbers of policemen in a well-run department...