Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent purpose of the new crackdown is to so intimidate the country's intellectuals that they will stop the embarrassing practice of criticizing Party Boss Erich Honecker's regime from inside East Germany. A case in point is Balladeer Wolf Biermann, 40, a poet and songster who regards himself as a dedicated Communist and actually emigrated from West Germany to East Germany in 1953 because he wanted to live in a Communist-run state. Since then he has become an outspoken critic of what he regards as East Berlin's distortion of Marxism, and accuses the East...
Dissident artists and intellectuals are probably not the prime target of the new crackdown. It seems more designed to warn Honecker's 17 million countrymen that overt popular discontent will not be tolerated. In a recent reshuffle of the country's top posts, Honecker demoted some relative moderates and increased the power of the hardliners...
...Harvard academic urging a crackdown on small-time criminals evokes accusations of social injustice, a charge that greatly irritates the usually unflappable Wilson. He correctly points out that the prime victims of street crime are the urban poor and claims that his real concern is with "the disadvantaged society." Throughout his writing, Wilson makes a special effort to show how his theories meet the needs of ghetto blacks and urban poor...
...Privately, Thais were shocked by the violence, which violated the traditional "Thai kar Thai" (Thai kill Thai) taboo against communal bloodshed. When NARC began arresting "subversives" last month, hundreds began literally running scared-sleeping in a different friend's home every night. To many Thais, NARC's crackdown and its strict press censorship suggested that Seni's paralyzed democracy would be replaced by the kind of lazily corrupt military rule the country had endured in the 1960s and early...
...continuing crackdown on the leftists suggested that Hua Kuo-feng, assisted by moderates and army commanders, was moving rapidly to consolidate his grip on China's tentacles of power. The new party Chairman's next task will probably be to establish his own trademark, creating a distinctive and inspiring style of rule. That may turn out to be difficult for a man who has proved himself so far to be a competent administrator but hardly a charismatic leader in the mold of Mao. Nonetheless for the moment at least, Hua seems to be the triumphant beneficiary...