Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the near panic in Florida's large Cuban-American community, Carter's sudden crackdown on the flotilla chugging between Key West and Castro's designated embarkation port of Mariel produced other uncertainties. By seizing 113 boats by week's end and threatening boatowners with fines of up to $50,000 and prison terms of up to ten years, the Administration had effectively stopped the sailing of boats out of Key West. Yet some 1,500 American craft still lay in Mariel, capable of carrying an average of 45 refugees each-a potential capacity...
...student turmoil grows, he imposes an army crackdown...
...Seoul university campus where student organizers had been meeting to plan new tactics; 18 suspected leaders were arrested. Simultaneously, 2,000 other police surrounded the school and detained other activists as they tried to run away. Then, within hours, the army's Martial Law Command proclaimed a broad crackdown that appeared to give the military all but official control over the country's political life. All schools were ordered closed until further notice. Political gatherings were banned. According to some reports, it was feared that even further sessions of the National Assembly might be suspended...
...ever since, and against the failure of the regime to deliver on its promises of a new constitution and a specific timetable for free popular elections. The demonstrations had followed three days of rioting among striking coal miners in the southern city of Sabuk. Now, the army's crackdown raised fresh doubts about South Korea's ability to make a successful transition to democratic rule...
...appointing himself acting chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, a key post formerly held by Kim Jae Kyu, Park's convicted assassin. In a three-hour talk with TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin M. Reingold and Correspondent S. Chang in Seoul last week, shortly before the army crackdown, Chun showed little eagerness for lifting martial law soon, and warned of a new military threat from North Korea. Excerpts from the conversation, the first he has ever held with foreign journalists...