Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Russian parliament in rebellion and the military waffling, the chief threat was civil war. After an almost disastrous delay, Yeltsin eventually did the right thing and confronted the renegade parliament. After some undemocratic tank diplomacy, the key opposition leaders were jailed and Yeltsin began a general crackdown that included press censorship and the stifling of local governments...
Whatever their scientific validity, these complaints are giving people whose livelihoods depend on MSG, well, headaches. After a recent flurry of ominous news reports, the Food and Drug Administration is promising new regulations on the additive, and some observers wonder whether an MSG crackdown is in the offing...
...Harvard Square, where Chinese and other restaurants are as common as bicycles in the streets of Beijing, such a crackdown is viewed with fear. Restaurant owners say limiting MSG would seriously undermine the pleasurable experience of a Square meal. MSG intensifies the sensation sparked by the union of food and taste...
...China relations have been troubled since the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, but have grown markedly worse since last spring when China's most- favored-nation trading status came up for review in Washington. Though the Clinton Administration pushed through renewal of MFN status for a year, the decision was conditioned on significant improvements on the human-rights front. While Chinese citizens enjoy considerably more personal freedom today than they did three or four years ago, on-and-off repression of dissidence keeps the human-rights issue alive. Another major irritant was introduced last August when the U.S. imposed...
...Islamic intellectuals, clerics and fundamentalists who opposed him. One week after Abouhalima departed, militants killed the Egyptian President. Meanwhile, in Munich, Abouhalima sought political asylum, claiming that he faced persecution in Egypt because of his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist party that was then facing a harsh crackdown...