Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been lower. At the provincial capital of Battambang, for instance, students protesting the rising price of rice rioted for two days against the Chinese population, which forms the bulk of the merchant class and is an easy scapegoat. When 20 of their number were then arrested in a military crackdown, the students seized an airport commander and held him until Premier Long Beret flew over from Phnom-Penh and worked out a mutual release. By week's end the anti-Chinese feeling seemed to be spreading to the capital, where crowds of students gathered on street corners-waiting...
Teso said the crackdown will involve close to 200,000 violators and will probably result in a return of over $500,000 to Cambridge's municipal coffers...
Students reached last night did not appear worried about the new crackdown...
...Congress last month, it puts a paltry $300 million limit to such credits. It also makes free emigration for Soviet citizens a condition of trade concessions to the U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's public assertion in December that there was no such agreement, combined with a new crackdown on Soviet Jewish emigration (see below), suggested to some Kremlinologists that Brezhnev's authority may be under serious challenge...
Mayer argues that a Government crackdown now would be far less risky than accepting the present situation. "The banking structure that is now building can collapse," he warns flatly. "The larger the regulatory apparatus permits it to grow, the more catastrophic the collapse will be." Should it occur, neither the public nor the men who supervise the nation's banks will be able to say that they have not been warned...