Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made it impossible for the Soviets to accuse him of unorthodoxy. According to what Western observers call Ceauşescu's Law, the more daring the foreign policy, the more rigidly conservative the domestic climate. Accordingly, Ceauşescu followed up his Peking trip with a tough crackdown on those "invidious Western influences" that the Soviets regularly criticize as bourgeois and decadent...
Estimates of the death toll in the army crackdown range from 200,000 all the way up to a million. The lower figure is more widely accepted, but the number may never be known. For one thing, countless corpses have been dumped in rivers, wells and mass graves. For another, statistics from East Pakistan are even more unreliable than statistics from most other places (see TIME Essay). That is inevitable in a place where, before the refugee exodus began, 78 million people, 80% of them illiterate, were packed into an area no larger than Florida...
...country have been betrayed." There is a case for Yahya's Lincolnesque attempt to hold the Pakistani house together; there is none for his methods. He might have succeeded had he tried to accommodate the East's justifiable demands for greater autonomy. But his tough crackdown virtually guarantees that the country's two halves, which have precious little in common, will never be successfully reunited...
...midtown area was inundated with prostitution." The girls received some unexpected support: Women's Liberationists quickly picketed the courthouse, protesting female exploitation. But the resultant publicity could not have been better for Mayor John Lindsay, who was at the same time launching the city's ritual annual crackdown on the sidewalk sirens...
...crackdown, all agreed, was the most spectacular in recent years. Newspapers had a field day. Reformers experienced the self-righteous glow of success. But like most efforts to stem the tide of human nature and commerce, the effort was ultimately doomed. By week's end many of the girls were back at their posts, dodging police patrols with gazelle-like speed, if not grace, and immersed once more in their work...