Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than most businesses, massage parlors are constantly adjusting to new -and unusual-market conditions. Los Angeles County attempted a crackdown by requiring masseuses to pay $300 for a two-month training course and produce letters of recommendation from five solid citizens. One result: a switch in operations to nude encounter groups, an "indoor nudist colony," and "outcall massage" services like Hollywood's Chick Delight, which advertises "finger-lickin' good" women who home-deliver "snack boxes of breasts, thighs, white meat and dark." Another L.A. outcall service sets prices according to the skills and dimensions of the woman...
...crackdown also came as conservative Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, confirmed by the king two days ago to continue as head of government, prepared to pick a new cabinet...
...sudden crackdown on opposition to the new regime, the Spanish police arrested nearly 300 political dissidents yesterday, including the recently freed leftist labor leader. Marcelino Camacho...
Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday that this crackdown was symbolic of "a last fight by the remaining fascists to prevent change" and added that it would do little to stave off an eventual collapse of the right...
...this world," Jesus said. To Jehovah's Witnesses, who now number more than 2 million worldwide, that is a command to boycott all political activity. Various nations have found this irksome, but few have matched the violence of Malawi's response. During a 1972 crackdown by President-for-life Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a Presbyterian elder, Malawi Witnesses were robbed, beaten, raped, even murdered. Thousands fled to neighboring Zambia, which shipped most of them back to Malawi. Eventually, about 34,000 found refuge in Portuguese Mozambique...