Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Central Square's lack of adequate municipal parking facilities and the recent police crackdown on parking offenders in the city as a whole have rendered the neighborhood largely inconvenient for motorist-shoppers...
...Kruger guided through Parliament an omnibus security bill, known as the Internal Security Act, that provides for the indefinite detention without trial of any person whom the police deem to be a security risk. As his police continued a nationwide crackdown on black militants last week, Kruger confirmed that 77 people were being detained under the Internal Security Act; some sources say that the number is at least twice as high. The minister added that 744 others, most of them black, had been arrested on such charges as rioting, arson and "causing a disturbance...
...putting into practice a program of economic austerity that is the only cure for Italy's unemployment and inflation (20 per cent, according to recent figures). During the recent election campaigns, the PCI backed a program of much-needed social reforms: new hospitals and schools, more housing, and a crackdown on the wealthy industrialists who habitually evade their income tax. Perhaps most important, the PCI offered an effective alternative to the politics of corruption and scandal that have become the trademark...
...recent events in India, the third-world state in which the Soviets have the greatest economic, political and ideological investment. The strengthening of Mrs. Gandhi's government during the emergency, for instance, has reduced her dependence on the Moscow-lining Communist Party of India. The government's crackdown on some trade union groups, and its efforts to shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay, 30, who has shown little sympathy for Marxist é thinking...
...exception: the P.C.I, insists upon national planning). Like everyone else, Peggio wants better public administration, a more efficient tax system, better controls over public spending, an end to Italy's massive borrowing abroad, investment in labor-intensive industries as well as in the depressed Mezzogiorno, and a further crackdown on the flight of capital...