Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batista's crackdown on liberties now killed off whatever chance remained of free presidential elections on June 1. Though the government stubbornly pressed preparations for the balloting, the only major opposition candidate, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, 70, warned that suppression of free speech and assembly made campaigning impossible. There were indications he might withdraw...
Curb Service. In Oklahoma City, E. G. Albright discovered how the city makes $125 a day in an overtime-parking crackdown: he parked his car at a spot where there was no meter, returned a short time later to find a ticket on his windshield, a meter in front...
...Soviet Union's top tippler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of his closest friends, John Barleycorn, according to Pravda. In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio...
Taxmen figure that the crackdown will bring in only several million dollars at most. But in the process, it will create worry and confusion for millions of taxpayers. Even the office employee who works late and gets money for supper and a taxi home will have to list it as income: late suppers will probably not be taxed; cabs...
Clearly, the Marxist-materialist bosses of Hunan's "people's government" are afraid of ghosts-or of a restless undercurrent of anti-Communism that has resulted in a China-wide crackdown against dissenters of all kinds. At first, ran the Peking account, Taoists Li Kwei-ying (a woman) and Chiang Chang-en were given eight-year sentences. They received death sentences only after Hunan's "masses protested against too light punishment...