Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people and accelerated a government crackdown on the Irish Republican Army in the South. The dangerous freelance adventurism of skyjacking persisted. As of last week there had been 393 such episodes round the world in 1972, including one marathon in November that lasted 29 hours before the three hijackers left the Southern Airways jet in Havana...
...prevent détente from penetrating Soviet borders. Since Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow last May, the screws have been clamped ever tighter on expressions of dissent in Russia. Now some Western observers think that the Soviets are poised on the brink of the most massive crackdown since Stalin's death...
...Brigadier General Alfredo Montoya, boss of Manila's tough metropolitan police, put the regime's case last week, Marcos' measures only reflected "a need to discipline our people." Ostensibly, the crackdown is aimed at a Maoist-inspired (and Peking-supported) guerrilla movement known as the New People's Army, which the government blamed for the attempt on Enrile's life and for bombings that have rocked the Manila area recently. With about 1,000 arms-carrying guerrillas, the N.P.A. is nowhere near as large as was the Communist Hukbalahap movement that terrorized Luzon...
Aquino, whom Marcos has accused of collaborating with the N.P.A., had backed a Manila rally-held the day before the crackdown-at which 30,000 Filipinos protested that the Marcos regime would use terrorist violence as an excuse to employ emergency powers to silence the opposition...
...increasing number of Western physicians and researchers are becoming interested in acupuncture. But so little is known about why it works that many doctors are cautious about its indiscriminate use. The reason for the New York crackdown, however, was statutory rather than scientific. The state agency has ruled that acupuncture is the practice of medicine and may therefore be performed only by properly licensed physicians. Though Dr. Ng and many of his fellow needle wielders hold medical degrees from Chinese institutions, they are not authorized to practice in New York. Without fluency in English or, in some cases, recognized medical...