Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commissioner's crackdown came just three days after the National Basketball Association dealt with a drug problem of its own. The New Jersey Nets' talented point guard, Micheal ("Sugar") Ray Richardson, who tested positive for cocaine use for the third time, was banned from playing in the N.B.A...
Several factors seemed to be behind the crackdown. To begin with, Alexandra lies just six miles north of downtown Johannesburg, where most news organizations are headquartered, giving reporters easy access to the story. Officials did not want Alexandra swarming with journalists who would upset the picture of relative calm that for no apparent reason other than simple exhaustion on the part of protesters, seems to have settled over South Africa in recent weeks. Moreover, the mile-square township is hemmed in on three sides by light industrial complexes and on the fourth by white suburbs. The outbreak of violence...
Enrile also has a reputation for being reform-minded. Over the past two decades he has emerged as a discreet internal critic of the Marcos government, even though he was an architect and implementer of the 1972 martial law crackdown. Although Enrile had never openly criticized the President until now, despite a humiliating loss of power to General Ver, which Marcos ) sanctioned, as long as two years ago he had begun privately to confide his concerns about Ver's broad powers. If Marcos again declared martial law, he said, he would feel compelled to quit his post...
...crackdown was sparked by a petition drive mounted by opposition leaders. Its aim: revision of the 1980 South Korean constitution to allow direct election of the President, instead of the current electoral-college system, which allegedly favors Chun's ruling party. Chun, for his part, wants a moratorium on political reform until after the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Scoffs Kim Young Sam: "To say that the nation should absorb all the government madness until 1988 is to say that Korea could go to pieces after the Olympics...
...lack of similar reasoning applied to the Soviet Union is striking, to say the least. American wheat, technology, and investment are very important to the Soviet Union. (The effectiveness of economic sanctions against them, however, is doubted by almost all observers. Indeed, the current crackdown on Jews desiring to emigrate is linked by most Soviet experts to the Carter grain embargo and other souring facets of U.S./Soviet relations. Can we expect the same increase in internal harshness in South Africa as a result of hypothetical sanctions?) But we hear almost nothing, even from the Reagan Administration, about new sanctions...