Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until then, most of the committee members had been convinced that Oswald had acted alone, but they began hunting for a conspiracy. The report notes that the Mafia had good reason to hate the Kennedys because of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime. The committee concedes that "it was unable to identify the other gunman or the nature and extent of the conspiracy." But it nonetheless concludes that it was "possible" that "an individual organized crime leader, or a small combination of leaders," had conspired to murder the President...
MIDDLE EAST Crackdown on the Palestinians Israel takes a hard line on both terrorism and dissent
...main targets of the new crackdown are wall posters that have appeared along Peking's "democracy wall" and in other major cities. The posters' bold demands have ranged from freedom of speech to sexual and romantic liberty. One poster pleaded with President Carter to "pay attention to the condition of human rights in China," another quoted from the Declaration of Independence...
Some analysts speculated that Deng had ordered the crackdown under pressure from hard-lining Politburo members in exchange for the right to pursue his modernization program. The new campaign has already had a visible effect on the democracy wall. Last week only one poster defended human rights. The others called for nothing bolder than catching up with the West by the year 2000-in weapons and industry, of course...
...problem that will be solved only when musicians can hear more Western ensembles and study with teachers trained in a different idiom. For now, China's artistic world is celebrating the fall of the Gang of Four. Pipa Player Liu has a lively repertoire again; during the cultural crackdown, he played in the Peking Philharmonic, which could perform exactly nine works...