Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suspected Pirates. Currently, however, Chet Brown, the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, and the major studios are starting a crackdown. Studios like 20th Century-Fox have assigned attorneys full time to film security, and the Motion Picture Association has hired two ex-FBI agents to staff a round-the-clock security office. Last spring Brown, working with the help of the FBI, which conducted more than 100 searches of suspected pirates for stolen prints, got indictments against 16 of them. Last month a Los Angeles jury convicted Budget Films, Inc. of selling stolen prints, including those of Paper Moon...
...unemployment rates could both be heading down sufficiently to leave the U.S. poised for further recovery. On the other hand, he argues, if the Government tries to pump enough money into the economy to prompt a faster rebound, it will only fan greater inflation that eventually would force a crackdown on demand. "We have one more chance now," he warns, "and if we blow it, we are going to have a very serious recession...
...Gandhi's crackdown may now reduce foreign reporters to the servile status docilely accepted by the journalists who work for the nation's 830 dailies (combined circulation 9,436,000). Indeed, no major paper has shown defiance, including those owned by powerful businessmen who have in the past opposed Indira Gandhi. Only two newsmen, K.R. Malkani, editor of the right-wing Motherland, and Kuldip Nayar, editor of the Indian Express, have been imprisoned. But little change in news coverage has actually occurred because Indian journalists have traditionally depended on government press releases for most of their information...
...week's end, the government admitted that more than 870 people had been taken into custody (some observers believe the total is far higher). None of those detained under terms of the emergency decree will be able to appeal to the courts for release. Many details of the crackdown and its aftermath were hard to discern; for the first time since India won its independence from Britain in 1947, censorship was imposed not only on the country's press but on foreign journalists as well...
...there has been no evidence of the kind of violent mass reprisals that some U.S. officials predicted would accompany a Communist victory in South Viet Nam. Still, many Saigonais still fear a crackdown. Liberation Daily, in fact, may have hinted that such a terror campaign is in the offing; a recent article noted "a popular movement to discover and pursue the wicked elements who were servants of Americans and their puppet Saigon government...