Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although pleased by the quick police reaction, the merchants still reacted strongly to this latest disturbance by demanding more police presence in the Square-demanding, in fact, a general police crackdown on street people in the Square...
...disturbances led to a crackdown on street people in the area and turned Harvard Square into the most polarized neighborhood in the city...
Wednesday night's curfew and massive police presence in Harvard Square marked the beginning of a crackdown on street people in the area...
With those words, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's greatest living novelist, last week lashed out at what has become perhaps the most sinister aspect of the current Soviet crackdown on internal dissent: the confinement of dissidents in mental institutions on the grounds that they are mentally unbalanced. Said Solzhenitsyn in his protest statement, which was circulated to Western newsmen in Moscow: "If this were only the first case! But it has become a fashion, a devious method of reprisal without determining guilt when the real cause is too shameful to be stated...
...most important figures in the New Haven case: Sams because his testimony may send Scale to the electric chair, and Scale because his indictment turned the New Haven trial from an almost routine prosecution of a small Party Chapter-one of many such prosecutions in the nationwide crackdown on the Panthers which has been underway since Richard Nixon and Co, took over the operation of the nation's law-enforcement apparatus into what may be one of the most important political trials in this century, a trial which black and white radicals alike contend forms and all-important, make...