Word: crackdowner
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...Crackdown on cooked books...
...hundreds of arrests, occasional incidents of torture and other forms of harassment since mid-1983 constitute the first sweeping crackdown against Christian activity since the Communist regime instituted a measure of toleration in 1979. The repression is aimed especially at a zealous Protestant revival occurring among the unsanctioned house churches, which are in increasing conflict with the government-approved Protestant organizations. Only last week, for the first time, a government newspaper confirmed the existence of a Protestant revival "fever...
...among the defects cited by the Defense Department in three of its most important missile systems, all of them made by Hughes Aircraft Co., in Tucson. Last week the Pentagon said it would stop $38 million in progress payments to the company in what may be the most sweeping crackdown on a military supplier in recent history...
...Cabinet of the four Communist ministers as well as the future of Party Leader Georges Marchais, who has not spoken publicly about the voting results. Marchais's pro-Soviet line has been under fire by some French comrades since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Moscow's crackdown on Poland. The party was further handicapped by its ambivalent role as both a junior partner in the Mitterrand Cabinet and a critic of the government's unpopular economic austerity measures. Said a government official last week: "The Communists' best bet might be to leave the government...
...possible insider trading of Disney stock. The SEC had already pro posed legislation that would require stockholder approval of stock buy-back plans, and the Disney debacle is sure to win it support. Moreover, Democratic Congressman Timothy Wirth of Colorado has conducted hearings that may lead to a legislative crackdown on questionable takeover tactics...