Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation (Tokyo's homicide rate is about one-tenth that of New York's, for instance, and robbery is almost nonexistent). But police estimate that the country now has 124,000 yakuza (good-for-nothings, as mobsters are commonly called), divided into some 2,900 gangs. A crackdown on these boryokudan (violence organizations) has become the top priority of Japan's 200,000-man national police force...
...armed forces also got Bordaberry's pledge to carry out 19 specific political and economic reforms, including a redistribution of income, land reform, elimination of foreign debt, a war on inflation and a crackdown on political corruption. Unlike the right-wing juntas that have assumed power in Bolivia and Brazil, or the nationalist, left-wing military regimes in Peru and Panama, Uruguay's new leaders seem almost apolitical. Although vociferously anti-Marxist, they describe their aims in naively chivalrous and even quixotic phrases-like serving as "watchdogs of patriotism, austerity, disinterest, generosity, honor and firmness of character...
Moscow's rebuff of the West's proposals at Helsinki came as no great surprise. Fearful of the already powerful pull of Western ideas, aspirations and affluence on their own populations, the East bloc regimes have been digging in against detente with the toughest ideological crackdown in years (TIME, Dec. 25). Still, the abrupt Soviet treatment of MBFR suggests that, detente or no, the West may have less leverage than it expected when it comes to prying significant concessions out of Moscow...
...fact, it may all be too good to have ended. Curiously, there has been no sequel as yet to the November crackdown, even though some 300 unlicensed guesthouses continue to operate illegally right inside Zakopane itself. The word among the sullen gorali is that most of the victims of the bulldozers were simply too poor to get up the necessary bribes; Stanislaw Suchowian, 30, the father of two, who was arrested at 4 a.m. on the morning of the raid, lost his life's savings when his house was smashed down...
...crackdown worthy of more conventional Communist capitals, Belgrade has been waging a noisy war against villains ranging from "bourgeois nationalists" and "anarcho-liberals" at home to various unnamed "Western powers" abroad. The tough verbal salvos have been backed up by a campaign aimed at administering a strong dose of party discipline to Yugoslavia's once unfettered press, its famed "market socialism," its relaxed, decentralized, federal form of government-just about everything, in short, that Tito eagerly embraced in the early 1950s when he led his vulnerable nation of 21 million on its courageous spin away from Moscow...