Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minority platform planks ?against busing, against a school-prayer amendment, against a plea for capital punishment, against a crackdown on welfare eligibility...
Despite a recent crackdown by the Saigon government, neither desertion nor draft evasion carries any great stigma among most South Vietnamese, who are weary of a war that has gone on for 25 years. One reason is that family allegiance has traditionally been recognized as the highest loyalty, greater even than that due to one's country. Men like Tran Van Hai are protected by a closely knit community that admires their struggle to avoid military service. Another reason is the pervasive corruption that permits all but the poor to buy their way out of army duty...
...Crackdown. Last week, the Croatian capital of Zagreb was bedecked with flower-adorned busts and portraits of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, honoring him on his 80th birthday. But beneath the show of loyalty was a simmering political crisis. Croats are still paying heavily for an outburst of nationalist feeling that reached a climax last fall when 30,000 students went on strike in Zagreb. Seizing upon Tito's experimental program of decentralization, which offered a measure of political and fiscal autonomy to Yugoslavia's six republics, Croatian nationalists demanded their own army and airline, and separate membership...
These are only two of the 460 poachers whom the Government has identified in a new crackdown. Forty-eight arrest warrants have been issued within the past two months, and the penalties are severe. Two Atlanta men, indicted three weeks ago for trading in alligator hides, face sentences of up to 40 years in prison and $400,000 in fines...
Sometimes ITT's operatives are too smooth for their own good. Recently Yale Brozen, a University of Chicago economist, assailed the Federal Trade Commission in a speech, likening the agency's crackdown on deceptive or puff advertising claims to "star-chamber proceedings" and "Salem witch hunts." The speech got wide publicity. One fact not mentioned in the stories was that Brozen is a paid consultant to Harshe-Rotman & Druck, a public relations firm, which arranged for him to speak in various luncheon clubs. The firm is employed by ITT Continental Baking Co., which has been warned...