Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When you put these evil, vicious enemies of society in prison, they do not become Little Leaguers or Boy Scouts. Prison "reform" begins with a crackdown on these wild mavericks and the thoughtless idiots on the outside who support them...
...crusade for quiet is off to a good start. Environmental officers have swarmed through business and residential areas, recording violations on sensitive decibel meters. Offenders are sent to face judges who can mete out penalties as high as $500 plus six months in jail. As a result of the crackdown, residents are already beginning to notice small but audible changes. Car-pool drivers, instead of impatiently honking their horns, now wait silently for tardy passengers. The once clangorous chimes of St. Peter's United Church of Christ on the Northwest side have been silenced-over the protests...
...that the criticism had made them ill and walked off for the rest of the day. Others worked in slow motion. Attempts to dismiss the Mob supervisors resulted in more walkouts as well as threats. In February 1970, with the completion deadline six months away, Bateson officials tried a crackdown. Shortly afterward, a fire flared on the second floor of the building, causing $100,000 in damages before it was finally extinguished. The origin of the blaze was never determined...
There is little doubt that Mujib will be convicted of the undefined charges of "waging war against Pakistan and other offenses." When he was arrested last March 26, hours after the army crackdown, Yahya publicly branded him a traitor and hinted that he "might not live." Observed one Western diplomat last week: "You know how hot the Punjabi plains are this time of year. You might say Mujib has a snowball's chance of acquittal...
...contribute to disease," the judge declared. "They are responsible for serious crimes." An attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union, on the other hand, denounced Schwalb for "an utterly outrageous exercise of judicial power." Mayor John Lindsay, like so many mayors in such embarrassing circumstances, ordered yet another "crackdown on vice." But as the police began rounding up streetwalkers, 50 militant Women's Liberationists picketed the criminal court, and one of their placards charged: PROSTITUTION: MEN'S CRIME AGAINST WOMEN...