Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through crowds, spitting in public and even eating dogs. But after the nation finished playing host to the summer Olympics, the rigorous campaign slacked off, and government officials have noticed that many citizens went back to their old antisocial ways. To combat the problem, a new month-long crackdown has been launched against expectorating, smoking in restricted areas, urinating in public and "behaving obnoxiously while intoxicated." On the first day of the program, police officials announced that exactly 57,294 people had been reprimanded nationwide, primarily for spitting and littering...
...Jovic said he was "not ready to go along with such decisions that are leading to the breakup of the country." For his part, Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic found his grip on power seriously weakened by the turmoil. With the prospect that the army might yet impose a crackdown, Yugoslavia was left teetering between hope and fear...
...going to bow out with a whimper. In three tense marathon sessions of the collective federal presidency (made up of representatives of all six republics and the two Serbian provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo), Jovic, backed by the army chief of staff, had pressed for a military crackdown. "Milosevic is a fighting man," said Milovan Djilas, a dissident communist who was jailed repeatedly by Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the 1950s and '60s. "He won't go for a fundamental change of policy...
...European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Most of Gorbachev's policy shapers have been replaced by unknowns from the Central Committee's ideology department. Before their arrival, some of these new advisers purportedly helped draft a secret memorandum last summer that became the blueprint for the January military crackdown in Lithuania. The classified memo surfaced in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a new liberal daily newspaper that has been tolerated despite the general ebbing of glasnost that has occurred in the state-run electronic media...
Rushed to Israel to condemn Scud attacks and turned up last week in the Soviet Union to lambaste Mikhail Gorbachev for the Baltic crackdown...