Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Signs of the crackdown were soon evident. The feared units of army men, their faces daubed with black greasepaint, fanned out through Santiago's vast slums searching for Pinochet opponents. By week's end more than 40 people had been arrested. Among them: Ricardo Lagos, a moderate Socialist Party leader; German Correa, secretary-general of the Popular Democratic Front, an outlawed Marxist coalition; and Rafael Marroto, a spokesman for the Movement of the Revolutionary Left. Five Catholic priests, two Americans and three French, who worked with the poor were also detained. A few days later, the French clerics were...
...border have high hopes for Alliance. "We will take the battle to the smuggler," pledges William Logan, Customs commissioner in the area. But others voice skepticism as to how soon they will get the promised men and gear. Some wonder whether much can be accomplished without a stronger crackdown on the largely unregulated casas de cambio that exchange dollars for pesos and are thought to often launder drug money along the Mexican border. Sixty or so have sprouted on the main street of San Ysidro, Calif., alone...
...sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against crack has become the latest celebrated cause...
Last week's violence in Soweto seemed virtually inevitable. Two days before the mourners gathered, authorities had announced restrictions clearly designed to derail township plans for a mass funeral for those who had died in the previous week's police crackdown on rent strikers. When outraged Sowetans defiantly ignored the ban, even sacred burial grounds were transformed into battlefields...
...Rome -- namely, that he keep his position but not teach sexual-ethics courses. In fact, he has not offered a class exclusively in sexual morality for 15 years, although he has been a C.U. professor since 1965. Nonetheless, hierarchical support for the disciplinary action was as predictable as the crackdown itself. The Most Rev. Matthew Clark of Rochester, Curran's home diocese, accepted the decision as the "final word" but said Curran "always will be welcome" as a priest in Rochester. Later, a Vatican official said Clark had ! been "excessively tolerant...