Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prostitution is legal in France, but soliciting customers is not. It always has been a difficult distinction to make in practice, and last week the angry prostitutes of Lyon decided that the police were trampling on their rights. As part of Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski's general crackdown on vice, local police had been regularly pulling in Lyon's lovelies and fining them $40 for "conduct tending to provoke debauchery." In protest, some 200 prostitutes from the Lyon area camped with sleeping bags in the 15th century St.-Nizier church and announced that they would continue to occupy...
...crackdown began with the public hanging two weeks ago of eight South Koreans convicted of being Communists. Last year a military court sentenced the men to death for having conspired to overthrow the government by encouraging anti-Park demonstrations. Early this month the supreme court upheld the sentences; less than 24 hours later the men were executed...
Some foreign observers were openly skeptical as to whether the elections would mean much under the rules established by the Revolutionary Council. Before the coup and the subsequent crackdown, there were estimates (admittedly rough) that the middle-of-the-road Popular Democrats and the Center Social Democrats would win 60% of the vote and the Socialists another 25%. But the Communists could conceivably enlarge their estimated 12% of the vote should other leftist groups swing their support to them. Says Francisco Pinto Balsemào, editor of the weekly magazine Expresso and a founder of the Popular Democrats: "The Communists...
...been relatively quiescent. Several months ago, anti-Thieu activity, led by anti-Communist Roman Catholics, reached such a peak that many were reminded of the devastatingly effective anti-government Buddhist protests of the 1960s. Last month Thieu jailed 19 journalists and closed five opposition newspapers; for the moment, his crackdown seems to have silenced the opposition movement. His government's increasingly hostile treatment of the foreign press brought tragedy last week when the Saigon police ordered Agence France-Presse Correspondent Paul Leandri to National Police Headquarters to discuss a story. Leandri resented the interrogation, attempted to get away...
...unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, a shaken Millicent Fenwick, Republican Representative from New Jersey, said: "I can't believe this. I've never seen anything like it." At a political prison in Saigon, one 19-year-old girl, who had been arrested several weeks ago in a government crackdown on the press, told California's Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, "They beat us very much...