Word: crackdown
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...everyone accused of involvement so far has family, business or political ties to the northern state of Tamaulipas, which is the base for a ring of drug traffickers known as the Gulf Cartel. Indeed, it was Ruiz Massieu himself who headed the government's antidrug efforts and led a crackdown against the cartel, publicly targeting its elusive chief, Juan Gracia Abrego. Now Abrego stands accused of having put up the $330,000 allegedly paid for the assassination...
...Crackdown at Carnegie Mellon...
...illogic of any crackdown is that most studies of Latino immigrants show they have a strong work ethic, tight-knit families and a low use of public services. Despite being underpaid and undereducated, few cross the border to collect welfare. A recent study of census data showed that 16.9% of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles County received public assistance in 1990, compared with 41.7% of the non-Latino white population and 64.6% of blacks...
Officials, however, have no convincing explanation as to why Constant has escaped a belated crackdown on FRAPH. After FRAPH gunmen fired on and broke up a demonstration by Aristide supporters, killing six, American soldiers last Monday finally raided the organization's headquarters in Port-au-Prince. They carried off to prison 35 mostly lower-ranking FRAPH members...
...gesture, ordering the arrests of 300 Islamic Hamas activists, supporters of the militant group threatening to kill a young Israeli soldier by tomorrow if 200 Palestinian prisoners aren't freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will be saved is now a near unanimous focal point for Israeli...