Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials blame the influx on unusually tranquil seas that have eased the long journey, a crackdown against Haitians living illegally in the Bahamas, and rumors that the Carter Administration may be considering an amnesty for some illegal aliens in the U.S. Though it is sympathetic toward families trying to escape the economic hardships of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, Washington insists that the Haitians cannot legally be allowed into the U.S. because, unlike Cubans, they do not qualify as "political" refugees. Deportation proceedings, however, have been held up pending the outcome of legal proceedings. Last week a class...
...company as both their empire and their self-justification. As long as the family controlled the company, their fortunes and their power grew. The book is subtitled The Rise and Fall of the du Ponts of Delaware-- and the fall comes only in the late 1950s with a government crackdown, anti-trust laws, and the removal of the family from active control of the corporation...
Formosa was tolerated for several months by the authorities and even allowed to hold about a dozen indoor rallies in various cities across the island. But the magazine was banned in a sweeping crackdown against the opposition last December. The crunch came when Formosa 's leaders organized a rally in the city of Kaohsiung. The rally turned into the bloodiest riot in two decades; 183 policemen were reported injured...
...Christmas spending, if controls last that long, because credit limits were set in sales-slow March. They also questioned how they would sort out major purchases, like refrigerators, which are exempted from the regulations, from less expensive credit-restricted items, like fancy leather goods. Economists estimate that the card crackdown would have a measurable, if minor, impact on inflation. Consumers, in any case, will be forced to think twice about spending their plastic money, and banks and retailers now have an excuse to drop some money-losing business...
...show at 6:30. Tonight Kaplan does not like a head shot of John Connally. "He looks like hell," he says, and a young woman runs to find one that is more flattering. He is also unhappy with a Washington report by Tim O'Brien about an FBI crackdown on pornography. Says he: "O'Brien needs another eight seconds." As a result of the change, a bit about flooding in Los Angeles is discarded...