Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Brandt's major achievement, Ostpolitik, which opened West Germany's dialogues with Eastern Europe, is now under criticism as being more theater than substance. Instead of his promised increase in the exchange of people and ideas between the two Germanys, there has been a crackdown by East Germany's Communist rulers on contacts with the West...
...generals were appointed to head the courts-martial that would try offenders. The national police were placed on round-the-clock duty, and uniformed policemen were posted at major intersections in South Korea's chief cities. Park even made it a crime to criticize his decree ordering the crackdown...
Although the F.L.Q. violence diminished after the government crackdown, separatism-and the problems that gave it birth-remained. Many French-speaking Quebeckers still saw themselves as what Separatist Theoretician Pierre Valliéres acidly calls "the white niggers of Canada." They are still paid less than English-speaking Canadians, in a province whose economy is controlled by English interests...
...feuding that formerly went on. He put the latest operation together, first by getting Syrian President Hafez Assad to agree to his invasion plans, and then by restoring King Hus sein to a position of importance in the Arab world (he had been in bad graces since his 1970 crackdown on the Palestinian guerrillas). With unity achieved, Sadat was ready for battle...
...signs of a Soviet crackdown on political dissidents. The Jackson amendment restricts itself to the issue of emigration. Yet the untimely Soviet action against its dissidents has rallied support for the amendment, whose backers range the political spectrum from Democrats Edward Kennedy and George McGovern to Republicans Barry Goldwater and John Tower...