Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raid was no ordinary police crackdown, but a carefully planned piece of political strategy. The man behind it: War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott, who staged 1955's famed "preventive coup" to ensure constitutional government, but who lately has been showing increasing annoyance at parliamentary foibles. The main target of General Lett's ire is the opposition National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), of which Tenorio is a prominent member. The U.D.N. deputies have taken advantage of congressional immunity to insult high army brass in speeches; allied with other blocs in Congress, they have also sabotaged President Juscelino Kubitschek...
...critical days of the Hungarian revolution last November, the hospitals of Budapest were the scenes of many grim dramas. When the hated AVH police came out of hiding and joined the Soviet tanks in their savage crackdown, they shelled wards filled with children and wounded. Hospital courtyards were packed with the bodies of dead Freedom Fighters. Last week, for some unfathomable reason, the Kadar government in its first show trial decided to base its case against the Freedom Fighters on an incident that occurred at Domonkos Street hospital during these tense, terror-packed hours...
...tested by the netless high wire separating the national Communism of Poland from that of Hungary. In Poland the Soviet Union tolerates Wladyslaw Gomulka's "pure" national Communism; in Hungary it cracked down mercilessly when Imre Nagy tried to dilute national Communism with social democracy. Since the Hungarian crackdown, Tito has gone to elaborate lengths to prove to the Russians the "purity" in Moscow terms of his own brand of national Communism. Last week he did his best to show that his regime was not guilty of democracy...
...members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist on the satellites, who arrived in Budapest shortly before the Soviet crackdown began...
Abramson urged the councilors to adopt the alternate-side night parking plan, which was discarded by another committee last week. While this system may hurt garage owners, Abramson said, a crackdown would be damaging to service station operators since it may cause "as many as 1500 students to leave their cars at home...