Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressional crackdown on defense spending was much in evidence last week. The National Defense Authorization Act for 1989 passed by the House and Senate would increase defense spending only 2.8% next year, to $299.6 billion. That would not even match the expected 4% inflation rate. Another sign of seriousness about cutting the Pentagon budget came when the House passed a measure to expedite the process of closing 20 domestic military bases believed to be obsolete. The moves are expected to save anywhere from $2 billion to $5 billion a year...
...Northrop, Teledyne, Unisys and United Technologies. Since the raids, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., has been delving into charges that some of these defense contractors and their consultants bribed Pentagon officials for inside information vital in bidding for contracts worth billions of dollars. As part of the crackdown, Carlucci last week ordered 16 defense firms to certify on future contracts that they have received no inside tips relating to the deals...
...crackdown began when police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a right-wing rally last Sunday in the provincial town of Nandaime. More than 40 protesters were arrested, including four opposition leaders, who were later sentenced to six months in prison. Next day the government suspended the opposition daily La Prensa for 15 days and shut down Radio Catolica, run by the Roman Catholic Church. The moves brazenly violated President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's solemn vows to uphold civil rights. Meanwhile, the Sandinistas confiscated the vast San Antonio sugar plantation, the country's largest private business...
...will probably dwindle as the U.S. presidential contest intensifies, the Sandinistas apparently seized the chance to flex their muscles. But the move could backfire. Resolutions condemning Managua's actions whipped through Congress by overwhelming votes (91 to 4 in the Senate; 385 to 18 in the House), and the crackdown could force congressional opponents of contra military aid to reverse field or risk being blamed for "losing" Nicaragua during the fall campaign. Even Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, a persistent critic of U.S. policy in the region, conceded last week that lethal aid now stands a better chance...
...Soviet leader, chairing a Warsaw Pact summit, advances Moscow' s program for political and economic renewal as a way of jump- starting similar plans in Eastern Europe. -- A crackdown in Nicaragua spurs calls for military aid to the contras. -- Britain beats the U. S. to the arms deal of the century...