Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crackdown on dissent, "come hell or high water...
Foreign reaction to the crackdown was immediate and caustic. State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III said the Administration was "deeply disturbed" by what "seems to represent a very serious step backward." Other officials suggested that Washington might now be willing to consider diplomatic and economic sanctions against the South African regime. "I think they panicked," said U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. "They are frightened, and they are committing political and social suicide." Ambassador William Bowdler was called back to Washington from Pretoria for "consultations...
...said yesterday, however, that the telegram was a personal protest, adding that he will not ask the Corporation to protest South Africa's recent crackdown on black groups by divesting itself of its South Africa-related investments...
Expressions of outrage at his arrest--as well as a the arrests of 50 other prominent black leaders--have filled the U.S. media this week, and numerous campaigns to protest the crackdown have been organized...
...tradition, more or less shared that charitable view of their society's organized-crime element. At least the public generally tolerated known mobsters within their communities. But no longer. Public opinion has been aroused as never before against the hoods. Premier Takeo Fukuda has called for a crackdown, and across Japan police are unleashing "Operation Bulldozer"-a kind of psy-war harassment, Japanese-style-against the nation's 2,500 yakuza bands and their 110,000 members...