Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Rogers, on Nixon's orders, launched a diplomatic drive to persuade Arab governments to deny sanctuary to the fedayeen. But the guerrillas are popular heroes in many Arab countries, and the Arab governments' range of action is severely limited by the political consequences of a crackdown. The difficulty of concerting international action was demonstrated last week when 17 nations met in Washington to seek agreement on measures against skyjackers -and failed. Even if governments could agree, the Black September gangsters would be hard to eliminate, since they move so stealthily. Quite probably, the world will have...
Health officials, though unsure exactly what role the powder played in the Ardennes deaths and those reported elsewhere in France, confiscated supplies of the suspect preparation. They are also considering legal action against the manufacturer. The crackdown will protect infants from bad batches of Bebe, but offers no protection against harmful additives in other preparations. Like most countries, France has no laws controlling the contents of cosmetics and hygiene products...
...some countries have maneuvered themselves into a new and more profitable role: private entrepreneurs. Despite a war that might have been expected to occupy all their time, army colonels in South Viet Nam operated a string of civilian enterprises that included banking, construction and transportation, until a government crackdown earlier this year forced them out of business (TIME, April 3). The military in Indonesia owns a domestic airline, Mandala, bus services and banks. For sheer scope, drive and staying power, however, the business offensive of Turkey's army is in a class by itself. Turkish military chiefs openly...
...striking at phony charters by requiring most charter passengers to produce round-trip tickets before they leave-a rule that prevents consolidators from selling vouchers that may or may not be honored. A crackdown by British authorities has sharply cut the number of flights by British supplemental lines, which had been active in booking questionable charters for U.S. consolidators. As a result, some of New York City's biggest consolidators have abruptly gone out of business, and many of their customers, caught in the U.S. or Europe with return-trip vouchers, have had to find other means of getting...
...Coexistence. The Prague trials are part of an overall pattern of political crackdown throughout the Soviet bloc (TIME, July 10). Many Western statesmen have hoped that East-West détente would lead to political relaxation in the Communist countries. The effect so far has been the opposite. Communist leaders throughout the bloc are seeking to immunize their people from the possibly liberalizing contamination that could result from closer economic and cultural contact with the West. Soviet Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov has warned that détente will actually mean a sharpening of the political tensions between the Communist...