Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drug Enforcement Administration head TOM CONSTANTINE made a quiet trip to Bogota last week to say gracias to Colombian National Police chief GENERAL ROSSO JOSE SERRANO for his work rounding up the Cali dons. Since the CNP-DEA crackdown, says Constantine, the coke business has atomized, and the many small- and medium-size organizations now operating have neither the political sophistication nor the immense concentration of wealth of the old Cali guard. "That type of clout and power to intimidate doesn't exist anymore," says Constantine, who calls CNP boss Serrano "an honest guy who is determined to make...
...Internet. Recently, DEA officials say, the cnp raided a group of private telecommunications switching centers that the cartel leaders had organized in Bogota so they could dial a local number and have a clerk patch their calls to numbers anywhere around the world. The CNP telecommunications crackdown has put a cramp in the dons' style, but they still use visiting henchmen to carry messages to the outside. The war on drugs isn't over by a long shot...
...Israel has no apparent plans to let up on the most crippling economic sanction: the witholding of more than half of the Palestinian Authority's monthly income. "Netanyahu still wants to see a crackdown from Arafat on Hamas and the Islamic military groups," says Lisa Beyer, TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief. "What can he hold back in return? Everything, until the Palestinians do as they are told...
...surprisingly, the most obvious and yet complex question is: As Hong Kong is once again part of China, what will its future really be like? After the deep pessimism and loss of confidence the mainland experienced after the Tiananmen Square's crackdown of June 1989, the people's sentiments now are characterized by a vision of energy and optimism, confirmed by opinion polls as well as by the uniquely frenetic dynamism of the recent months, when a $20.1 billion public works program was initiated. As part of this huge planning project, the world's longest suspension bridge, linking the island...
...TIME's Jamil Hamad reports the Israeli crackdown is making the lives of those in the West Bank and Gaza hellish. "It's clear that a peaceful solution is becoming less and less popular every day because of such policies," says Hamad...