Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many, both in Russia and the West, the government crackdown on Novy Mir and Tvardovsky's resignation marked the end of an era. Since its founding in 1928, the magazine has published most of Russia's greatest contemporary writers. During the twelve years of Tvardovsky's editorship in the post-Stalin period, Novy Mir earned the reputation of being one of the best literary magazines published in any language anywhere. In addition to fiction and poetry, Tvardovsky managed to publish articles discussing, in a veiled way, Soviet antiSemitism, the wretchedness of village life, and other subjects hardly...
Sample Insurgents. "If the new Administration prosecutes the demonstrators," Clark said, "it will be a clear sign of a hard-line crackdown" on dissent. Shortly thereafter, Richard Nixon's new Attorney General, John Mitchell, authorized the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Thomas Foran, to add demonstration leaders to the grand jury's agenda. In March, the grand jury indicted a balanced ticket: eight policemen, eight radical ralliers...
...productivity has become especially dismaying to the party hierarchy-because of growing signs of sluggishness in the Soviet economy. Thus, while past antidrinking crusades have suffered from complacency and lack of enforcement, this time officials really seem to mean business. Last week the Soviet Trade Union Council ordered a crackdown on workers who "drink, loaf or drift." The council recommended that recalcitrant members be expelled and thereby deprived of sick leave and pension benefits...
...risk war with Turkey by supporting an enosis movement. Following the 1967 crisis, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos removed 7,000 of the 8,000 troops then based on Cyprus to avoid a showdown. Last month, at Makarios' request, he repudiated the National Front. Makarios then ordered a police crackdown on illegally held arms, and the Cyprus parliament dealt the Front an even stronger blow two weeks ago by passing a law enabling the government to detain suspected terrorists for three months without trial...
...Soviet occupation. Ultras, who recently took control of the party organization in Prague, moved into positions of power in the trade-union movement and perhaps even the Interior Ministry, which controls the secret police. Josef Korčák, who became premier of the Czech lands, threatened a crackdown on Czechoslovakia's associations of artists and writers. There was also the threat of new purges among newsmen. "The mass media must ensure that there is only one line of thought in the country," Strougal declared recently. "There is no place for individual opinion...