Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crackdown failed. Life was literally too short to skimp on pleasure and display. Untreatable diseases made 50 years an advanced age. The slow plague of syphilis is one of the smoldering subtexts of Simon's brimming narrative. Prostitutes gave the contagion to their customers, who passed it on to their wives. If women were not rendered barren by the bacterium, there were always the risks of childbirth and puerperal fever. Women were meant to provide heirs and cement profitable agreements through wedlock...
...demonstrators jammed the square in front of Yerevan's opera house, chanting "Karabakh," singing patriotic songs and holding banners bearing such inscriptions as SELF-DETERMINATION IS NOT EXTREMISM. Police did not interfere with the protests, and Soviet army troops maintained a low profile, but the implicit threat of a crackdown mounted with each passing...
...support that sort of thing," was as strong a statement as the President would make, but he added quickly that there was evidence that the riots that provoked an Israeli military crackdown were not "spontaneous...
WORLD: Israel' s foreign friends recoil at its crackdown on Palestinians...
When Colombia's anti-drug minister of justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated by traffickers, Noriega allowed the cartel leaders to shift their operations to Panama to escape a crackdown in their own country...