Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal crackdown on fake term papers [March 27] is like fighting measles by using steel wool to scrub off the belmishes. The basic contradiction this business thrives upon is that students are required to write term papers of no use or interest to them. "Publish or pelish" on the professoriaal level becomes "compose or fail" on the student level. This term paper requirement, so irrelevant to real needs of most students, is just one more example of how the educational system is geared to academic, bureaucratic and corporate instuitions and not be the needs of the students...
...display of sympathy for the gunned-down terrorists, Marxist groups set off bombs in Istanbul, and university students in Ankara boycotted classes. The Turkish army proceeded to round up 40 suspected guerrilla ringleaders. So far, in a crackdown on left-wing terrorism, nearly 1,500 people have been arrested or placed on trial. Last week's shootout seemed likely to make that crackdown even tougher...
...last Sunday, the city of Dacca resounded with the thunder of a 31-gun salute that marked the beginning of Bangladesh's first independence day. A year and a day earlier, on March 25, 1971, Pakistan had launched its military crackdown against rebellious East Bengal, which led to the brief, bloody war between India and Pakistan, the death of as many as 3,000,000 Bengalis-and the birth of a new nation...
While the Commission described possible physical damage to heavy users, Grinspoon said it fails to support its claims with empirical data. He also warned that the report's recommendation of tightened border surveillance and a crackdown on domestic production of marihuana might lead people to harder drugs...
When he was sworn in as Attorney General more than three years ago, John Mitchell vowed that a major goal during his tenure at the Justice Department would be a systematic crackdown on organized crime and the narcotics traffic. Since then, the Government has made an impressive attempt to keep Mitchell's promise, bringing indictments against 4,934 supposed evildoers since 1969. But some of that accomplishment will apparently be undone because Mitchell failed to observe the law governing the authorization of wiretaps. As many as 1,000 defendants could have their cases thrown out of court...