Word: crackdown
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...Will the crackdown reassure him and others? Even as Bonn was girding for action, a spate of new attacks swept the country. Police moved quickly and arrested suspects, many of whom were then charged with attempted murder. That alone represents an improvement; until recently many suspects in violent attacks were charged with nothing more serious than disturbing the peace. The chairman of the German Union of Judges, Rainer Voss, admitted last week that the public saw the judges as "inappropriately lenient" and urged his colleagues "to confront decisively the enemies of humanity and democracy." The Molln case may have provided...
That sentiment finds wide agreement among experts on right-wing extremism, who see a crackdown as only part of the solution. "Xenophobia in the public is still relatively strong, and it is being separated ((from the criminal acts)). There is nothing in this ((program)) to overcome it," says Wilhelm Heitmayer, a social scientist at the University of Bielefeld. He argues that the crackdown has the misleading effect of "reinterpreting" the attacks as being those of a few criminals on the periphery. Among the statistics experts use to illustrate the depth of the problem is a poll this month...
...Political infighting and discontent over a deteriorating economy catapulted Lithuania's former communist leaders back into office on promises of restoring order and slowing the painful process of reform. The government of President Vytautas Landsbergis, who courageously led the resistance to the bloody Soviet army crackdown in January 1990, was unable to translate the skills of revolt into running a country. Politics has shifted in the opposite direction in Estonia, where the nationalist Fatherland coalition has taken power with a pledge to "clean house" -- code words for removing all former communists from office...
...government crackdown on dissidents after the massacre ensnared Zhou. He served 10 months in a Chinese prison...
...crackdown followed weeks of criticism of Yeltsin's reform policies and reflects the Kremlin's general nervousness in the run-up to the December session of the Congress of People's Deputies, where the dominant communists plan to seek the government's resignation and a curb on free-market reforms. In his other show of clout, Yeltsin chose to disband a 5,000-strong police force controlled by one of his major rivals, legislative speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. Ironically, the so-called Cardinal's Guard was originally formed to protect the Russian legislative building after last year's failed coup. Yeltsin...