Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel's crackdown poses a special problem for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. The Palestinian riots tapped a deep vein of anti-Israeli sentiment within Egypt that a decade of peace has failed to dry up. Though Mubarak denounced Israel's "methods of repression and persecution," he resisted pressure from many of his countrymen and other Arab leaders to take stronger steps, including withdrawing his ambassador from Tel Aviv and breaking trade and cultural agreements...
...iron fist. Pitched battles between rock- throwing demonstrators and gun-toting soldiers left at least 17 Palestinians dead and more than a hundred wounded. Since the violence started on Dec. 8, hundreds have been arrested and detained. Denounced by the U.S. and other allies as excessive, the military crackdown has prompted soul searching at home as well as bitterness against outside criticism. Editorialized the daily newspaper Ma'ariv: "Israeli society is not meant to withstand bloodshed of this kind as the price of our presence in the territories...
...Government to delay further insider-trading probes lest new revelations drive stock prices even lower. No such luck. U.S. District Attorney Rudolph Giuliani maintains that even though the spotlight has shifted elsewhere, the investigations are proceeding at full speed. Says the Manhattan-based prosecutor, who has led the crackdown on Wall Street crooks: "Whatever the state of the market, our job is to uphold the laws of the U.S. -- not to protect profits...
That threat does not appear to preoccupy the South Koreans. Only last summer they seemed to be on the verge of chaos as tens of thousands of rock-throwing student protesters squared off almost daily against riot police. Instead of succumbing to civil chaos or a new military crackdown, the country defied all odds by laying down the constitutional groundwork for democratic reforms and advancing with astonishing speed to next week's election. Having come so far so fast, South Korea remains uncomfortably aware of the danger that, as in Haiti, an edgy military just might step in and undo...
...dramatic crackdown against insider trading has been haunted by a strange irony: no specific statute outlaws or even defines the crime. Using the broad | antifraud provisions of federal law, prosecutors have been expanding the reach of prohibitions against insider trading on a case-by-case basis. Over the past few years they have won decisions in numerous courts, but none of those precedents have been explicitly endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court...