Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crackdown followed showdown in Guatemala last week. Having weathered a stormy counterrevolt of army officers who hankered after another change (TIME, Aug. 16), Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas finally struck at Guatemalan Communism with the sort of command decisions his followers have been demanding since the June revolution...
...crackdown came none too soon. The country's leading Reds, every one of whom eluded Castillo Armas' somewhat butterfingered clutches last June, were hard at work trying to regroup their shattered forces underground. Some who first fled to asylum in embassies later slipped out to join other comrades in stirring up the peasants and the numerous unemployed. Immediately after the recent army rising, Communist leaflets quickly appeared on the streets proclaiming that "the people" had turned against the regime as "a fascist dictatorship imposed...
...Official Crackdown. When 25-year-old Trackman Bannister was hustled aboard a plane at London airport under the alias "Richard Bentley," his flight to the U.S. was supposed to be a secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story...
Vellucci countered: "The crackdown is a good thing. They should clean off all the bookstands in Cambridge." He cited the so-called "funny books" as the cause of juvenile delinquency...
...first step in his crackdown on Italian Communism (TIME, March 29), which includes cleaning the Reds out of moviemaking and other strongholds, Scelba announced that as of mid-April, Communist and fellow-traveling organizations will have to get out of government-owned facilities or face eviction proceedings. The Communists, for example, print their official newspaper, L'Unità, in a government-controlled printing plant. Pietro Nenni's Red-affiliated Socialists were the first to get specific eviction notes. They were told they had three months to vacate their Milan headquarters, a building where Mussolini founded his Fascist fighting...