Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arafat isn't alone. According to TIME's Jamil Hamad, the threatened Israeli crackdown is making the lives of those in the West Bank and Gaza a living hell. "It's clear that a peaceful solution is becoming less and less popular every day because of such policies," says Hamad. Nonetheless, the Isreali government gave every indication today that it was still up for a game of hardball -- by keeping its measures in place indefinitely...
...church capped a harsh campaign of intellectual purification against dozens of feminists and dissidents with the excommunication of D. Michael Quinn, a leading historian whose painstaking work documented Smith's involvement with the occult and church leaders' misrepresentation of some continued polygamy in the early 1900s. The current crackdown, some analysts believe, stems from fears of loss of control as the church becomes more international. Most think it will get worse if, as is likely, the church's hard-line No. 3 man, Boyd Packer, someday becomes President. Some wonder how the strict Mormon sense of hierarchy, along with...
About four years ago, either the new chief of police or the new mayor decided to get rid of the squeegee guys. (The fact that there was some confusion as to who deserved the credit for the crackdown was the sort of thing that eventually led the mayor to get rid of the chief of police as well.) Following the crackdown, it was widely assumed that the squeegee guys, after a decent interval, would reappear. That hasn't happened. New Yorkers, grateful but intractably suspicious, wonder where the squeegee guys...
...democracy demonstrators marched through the downtown area deriding China's form of government and demanding freedom of speech. Such protests may become more difficult starting Thursday, when all demonstrators must obtain a permit from local authorities before assembling. In an attempt to further calm fears of a crackdown, the Chinese leadership has promised Hong Kong citizens that soldiers assigned to garrison duty will be forbidden by law from involvement in Hong Kong's affairs and will not appear on the streets in armed vehicles. First impressions of the new military forces seemed to support Beijing's promise. The first wave...
HONG KONG: China will move 4,000 troops into Hong Kong just six hours after it regains control over the British colony, sparking fears among democratic activists that a crackdown on civil liberties cannot be far behind. Although the planned deployment would roughly match current British troop levels, today's announcement by the incoming government of Tung Chee-hwa was met with derision by colonial Governor Chris Patten. He warned that the sight of armored cars in the streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their...