Word: crackdowns
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...Permanent Bureau of the Political Executive Committee, she is part of the country's top decision-making body. As a First Deputy Premier, she supervises the secret police, determines promotions within the party, and has launched or supported programs ranging from the banning of abortions to a crackdown on press freedom. Her overall power is formidable. Says Doran Tudoran, a Rumanian poet now living in the U.S.: "Elena is very strong. She probably decides much more than the President. Over the past decade, the most important decrees by the Rumanian Council have come from desk No. 2, where Elena Ceausescu...
Every time a paroxysm of black unrest grips South Africa, followed by a crackdown by the white government of State President P.W. Botha, statesmen and politicians in Western capitals begin asking, Is there a way, any way short of military action for the world to force Pretoria to change its racial policies? Last week, as South Africa's current state of emergency entered its third week, the debate flared once more. Its focus: whether recent events require a major step-up in economic sanctions against South Africa, and whether such pressure would really contribute to banishing apartheid...
...coins in the U.S., but Reagan opposes the adoption of additional measures. Moreover, the Administration argues that America's ability to influence the Botha government's policies is marginal, even though the U.S. is South Africa's largest trading partner. Still, Washington is clearly miffed at Pretoria's new crackdown, coming as it did at a time when the U.S. had hoped that Botha was becoming more moderate. Said Chester Crocker, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: "We think that what the South African government has done is to shoot itself in both feet...
...concluded that Urban's account was a "self-serving attempt to lay the blame for martial law in Poland somewhere else." They admitted that the Administration had received "conflicting reports" on the pre-martial-law climate from several sources but had not known definitely whether, or when, the crackdown would take place. Further, one intelligence source said, any action would have jeopardized Kuklinski's life, impaired future intelligence-gathering capabilities in Poland and had no effect on the Polish government's chosen course of action. The State Department did not deny that Kuklinski had been a U.S. agent. He reportedly...
...Jaruzelski regime. Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa told reporters that Urban's statements contradicted the Polish regime's previous accounts of the martial-law decision. At the time, Jaruzelski had claimed that military rule was a last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated." Declared Janusz Onyszkiewicz, another former Solidarity leader: "This is simply a campaign to diminish the sympathy that the U.S. Administration enjoys in Poland...