Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combination of prosperity and censorship has diverted attention from the Brazilian military regime's arbitrary arrests of political opponents. Now the arrests are increasing (at least 1,000 in the past three months). Part of the new crackdown is a heavy emphasis ensuring that suspected subversives never cause trouble again. The routine called "disarticulation," a word that used in Brazil to mean the "breaking up of a gang." A student in Sao Paulo was rather severely disarticulated this month, for example, after apparently reneging on a promise to finger one of his friends. Before springing the trap, he supposedly...
...Pontiac the problem is especially acute. Two years ago, police began a crackdown on such Chicago gang "nations" as the Black P. Stones, Black Disciples and Vice Lords. Today, there are probably as many members inside Pontiac as on the streets. After the fatal rumble, most prisoners were kept "on deadlock"−that is, in their cells all day as well as all night. Only this month were the final 200 inmates released from deadlock. With the return to comparative calm, TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce was admitted to Pontiac and talked with inmate leaders about the killings and what might...
...called in heads of city departments and issued an ultimatum: either be loyal to Daley or be forced out. Some Democratic chieftains, noting that Thompson is increasingly talked about as a candidate for the mayor's job when Daley steps down in 1975, charge that his crackdown on corruption is politically motivated. The attorney convincingly denies the accusation. "I can't go out and hire Republicans to pose as defendants simply because I'm criticized," he says. "How in the world are you going to find Republican corruption in a city that has been under one-party...
...made him the enfant terrible of the Warsaw Pact countries ever since he came to power in 1965. Harshly orthodox in domestic policy but highly independent abroad, he is the one Soviet bloc leader who has been able to go his own way without provoking a Czechoslovakia-style crackdown. He even goes so far as to say that military blocs have become an anachronism...
...programs have not been formally scrapped, just suspended while officials ponder whether they do enough good to be continued, possibly in changed form. A case for such restudy can certainly be made. Some of the subsidy programs have been scarred by scandal. Before a belated FHA crackdown, fast-buck operators in a few cities bought or built ramshackle dwellings under Section 235, got inflated valuations from FHA appraisers and sold the buildings to unsuspecting buyers at unjustifiably high prices. In addition, the attempt to move public housing out of the ghettos and scatter it through white middle-class neighborhoods...