Word: crackdown
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What is Yasser Arafat up to? This morning, the PLO chairman's justice minister said that more than two dozen Palestinians would be tried in special military courts as part of a crackdown on Islamic militants. But the group, which faces the death penalty, is on trial for allegedly collaborating with the PLO's erstwhile peace partner, Israel. Later today, as Israeli officials criticized the plan, Arafat warmly announced that he was ready to start negotiating a permanent peace settlement -- including accelerating the final talks now due in 1996. "We are ready to start as soon as possible," Arafat said...
...loud, deep voice also projects extraordinary strength--he can speak in thunderclaps. But when he was interviewed recently in Tiraspol by TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and reporter Yuri Zarakhovich, Lebed's manner was calm even as he denounced the ``windbags'' running the Russian army, proclaimed that the crackdown on Chechnya must have been ordered up by ``dilettantes or madmen'' and mused about running the country himself someday. ``I don't really want to,'' he said, but ``I do not rule out the possibility that I might be forced to it out of necessity...
Samp says the crackdown was necessary because people who are not residents of Cambridge "find it politically advantageous" to vote in Cambridge...
...government's show of force ended a 12-month cease-fire that began after the Jan. 1, 1994, Zapatista insurrection left 145 dead and shattered Mexico's modernizing image. The crackdown also came as Zedillo's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party faced a difficult Feb. 12 election in the central state of Jalisco. That was a suspicious coincidence to some analysts, but Zedillo said his moves were triggered by fears of expanded Zapatista military action...
Over the past 15 years, India has become the world's largest reservoir of live kidney donors. In the 1980s the trade was centered in Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...