Word: crackdown
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Although the crackdown has drawn applause from antigambling Mohawk factions, it has provoked a militant response from Mohawks who regard the raids as violations of the tribe's sovereign rights. "We need to exercise our right to self-determination," argues Francis Boots, spokesman for the Mohawk Warriors Society, a militant and well-armed vigilante group that favors the casinos. "Gambling is just a small part of that...
Such findings flout the attempts by Israel's lobby in Washington to portray American Jews as united in their support for Israel's crackdown on the intifadeh and refusal to begin the talks with Palestinian moderates urged by the U.S. The Israeli government has gone to great lengths to discourage and even suppress criticism from American Jews, especially by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group that represents 45 associations. But those efforts are becoming increasingly futile. Says Albert Vorspan, senior vice president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "There is a gap between...
...Lithuanian crisis in his own way. Washington is clearly tempted by this option. After consulting with visiting French President Francois Mitterrand in Florida the day after Moscow cut off oil to Lithuania, President Bush emerged saying that his staff still had not confirmed the "exact extent of any Soviet crackdown" and that he could not say when the U.S. "might do something" to retaliate...
...benevolent but stern patriarch. South Korea prospers because of -- not in spite of -- Park Chung Hee, the dictator who laid the foundations for his country's phenomenal economic expansion. Though Elegant does not quite make the argument, the Confucian ethic, with its emphasis on obedience, can justify the Tiananmen crackdown. Deng Xiaoping is said to have modeled China's reforms on Park's repressive yet ultimately fruitful policies...
Together with the better-known Wu'er Kaixi, Zhai was one of the students who engaged in a heated televised "dialogue" with conservative Premier Li Peng in the days just prior to the Tiananmen crackdown. At his reappearance, Zhai claimed to be spokesman for a new group called the Cooperative Committee of the China Democratic Salvation Front. Said he: "We founded the organization to show our sense of duty to our people and to emulate the spirit of those who died in June." Composed of more than 60 fugitives, the organization has elected a chairman, a vice chairman and four...