Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Continuing Burden. As he prepares his amnesty along with his crackdown, Carter made another gesture of good will toward the immigrant community by nominating a Mexican-American, Leonel J. Castillo, 37, to be INS commissioner. Born and raised in Texas, Castillo served in the Peace Corps, then returned to Texas to lead a desegregation fight in Houston. He was elected Houston controller in 1971 and was twice reelected. Although he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, Castillo has already worked with Attorney General Griffin Bell on the new program...
...emigrate, electing to remain with their countrymen in spite of the risk. When one activist was arrested, another had already been designated to take his place. The goal of the charter movement, says one of its founders, Philosopher Jan Patocka, is "a certain moral dignity." The resumption of the crackdown seemed connected with the arrival of a delegation from Moscow, headed by Ivan Kapitonov, a powerful secretary of the Central Committee and professional troubleshooter...
...other substantive questions with which Carter and López Portillo must deal. To begin with, there is the drug problem. Mexico has become the principal supplier to U.S. users of marijuana and heroin. López Portillo has ordered his army to destroy the crops (see box). The crackdown has also filled some Mexican jails with U.S. citizens who were caught with drugs in their possession; about 590 are currently serving prison terms. Sensitive to complaints about jail conditions, the Mexican government has agreed with the U.S. to exchange prisoners. The Mexican legislature has already ratified the agreement...
...qualms when she extended the emergency powers vested in her office to the federal level. Considerations of political expediency dictated the action. Her case had gotten out of control in the courts and threatened to topple her regime. Finally on June 25, 1975, Narayan, sensing the imminence of a crackdown on dissent in the country, addressed a large crowd, exhorting employees of the government, the army and the police to disobey any orders they considered illegal. The potential for mutiny was quickly quashed by Gandhi, however, when she declared a state "emergency" within hours of Narayan's speech. Narayan...
...assault on Kohout, author of such plays as Poor Murderer and The Third Sister, was the most dramatic incident in a crackdown campaign against dissidents ordered by Czechoslovak authorities. Last week more than a dozen intellectuals and former party leaders were taken to Ruzyně, interrogated nonstop for as long as 14 hours and then released-only to have the intimidating procedure repeated in a day or so. Their "crime": being among the more than 300 Czechoslovaks who have signed Charter 77, a 3,000-word petition that calls upon Communist Party Boss Gustav Husák's repressive...