Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crackdown was South Africa's most severe act of repression in many years, and it produced a worldwide outcry. After debating more sweeping measures, which were vetoed by the U.S. and its Western allies, the U.N. Security Council voted to impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa. For the immediate future, that embargo will have only a limited effect, since South Africa is virtually self-sufficient in arms production?but it was a clear signal that the U.N., and particularly the West, is determined to take a firmer line with South Africa from...
There is some evidence that one goal of the present crackdown on dissent is to reassure the right-wing verkrampte (narrow-minded) members of Vorster's National Party. To foreigners, the gruff Prime Minister may seem to be nothing more than a formidable reactionary. "He travels in an ox wagon always one length behind the train of history," a ranking British official observed last year. But Vorster is a pragmatist by comparison with many of his Afrikaner colleagues in government and a very shrewd politician as well. Thus, the new constitution could be interpreted as a concession to white moderates...
...same for advertisements promoting X-rated films. No less than 74% supported the view that "the Government should crack down more on pornography in movies, books and nightclubs." Of these 54% said they felt this strongly. When a similar question was asked in 1974, only 42% favored a Government crackdown...
...taking a 1963 voluntary arms embargo on South Africa and making it mandatory, the U.N.-and particularly its Western members-served notice on Pretoria that it strongly disapproved of the country's recent crackdown on black leaders and organizations and was prepared, from now on, to turn this disapproval into limited action. Said U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young: "We have just sent a very clear message to the government of South Africa...
This is Paris in 1942. The German occupying forces have increased the harassment of Jews, and a major crackdown clearly is coming. Citizens who cannot produce baptismal certificates proving the Christianity of all four grandparents must queue up at physiognomy clinics, where quacks measure noses and cheekbones to spy out the Jewish taint...