Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations can expect head bashings from Spain's 65,000-man civil guard and 40,000 armed police, who are under Fraga's control. "If the opposition wants to make trouble in the streets," warns Fraga, "I will give it back to them." Generally, however, the police crackdown seems to be selective, and members of the so-called Bunker, a term Spaniards borrowed from English to denote Franco-era hardliners, are clearly...
...investigation, a San Diego grand jury indicted Contreras and six other Mexicans, one Canadian and eight Americans, as well as three Mexican firms, for peddling the contraband drug in the U.S. through a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation supplying some 10,000 cancer victims a day. It was the biggest crackdown yet against a drug that has a strong and persistent following even though, in the opinion of virtually all U.S. cancer specialists, it offers no real medical benefits...
...lately its concern has been increasing. Over the past few months, a series of fires and bombings have racked Tbilisi, the capital, and, usually in typical veiled fashion, Communist officials admit that the region's entrepreneurs are fighting fiat with fire in resisting a 3½-year crackdown on their ruble-rousing ways...
...Drug Abuse, notes that there were at least 800 methadone-related deaths last year involving "street" methadone-a fact the authors ignored. Thus there may be increasing clamor for other ways of dealing with the nation's estimated half a million heroin addicts. Among them: a new crackdown on dealers and "cold-turkey" detoxification of addicts-a tough but effective tactic (TIME, June 19,1972) that practically wiped out heroin addiction in Japan...
...story since the takeover has been quite different. News coming out of Argentina indicates that a widespread campaign of repression and arrests has finally started and that the arrests are no longer confined to former Peronist bureaucrats but form part of a general crackdown on leftist intellectuals, university professors, students, writers, psychoanalysts, journalists, scientists, and political and union activists. In addition, there is a widespread campaign against leftist political exiles from Chile and other South American countries. Conspicuously little treatment of these roundups has appeared in the U.S. press in the last few weeks...