Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colombian drug crackdown began to pick up speed last April, when Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was murdered in retaliation for his strenuous antidrug efforts. The assassination, the first ever of a Cabinet-level official in Colombia's history, shocked the nation and persuaded President Belisario Betancur Cuartas to abandon his reluctance to enforce an existing extradition treaty with the U.S. Since then, 78 alleged drug traffickers have been requested by the U.S., and Betancur has signed extradition papers for six of them. According to the treaty, however, the Colombians must first face charges and serve sentences in their...
...Saturday, 400,000 mourners gathered for an open-air funeral Mass in front of St. Stanislaw Kostka Church, all but enveloping the building and spilling down the neighboring streets. For the first time since the military crackdown, Walesa addressed an enormous crowd. At the very mention of his name, Poles began to cheer and flash the V-for-victory sign. "We swear that we will never forget his death," Walesa declared. "A Poland that has such priests has not lost and shall never be lost...
...soon as Popieluszko arrived at the parish of St. Stanislaw Kostka, he took on the job of chaplain to the huge Huta Warszawa steelworks, winning over hard-drinking mill hands with his friendly, unassuming manner. In the pulpit, Popieluszko became an eloquent defender of Solidarity, and after the military crackdown his monthly "Mass for the fatherland" became a rallying point for the opposition...
Unless the causes that have regenerated the Mafia over the years are identified and fought, no crackdown can eliminate the group...
Even as the security crackdown went into effect, newspapers and government ministers took aim at the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID), the U.S.-based organization accused of funneling money and arms to the I.R.A. "The bomb," noted a Daily Mirror editorial, "may have been planted by an Irish terrorist, but the fingerprints upon it were American." Addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in London, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe warned the "misguided minority of Irish Americans [that] they are supporting and promoting terrorism." Subsequently, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Charles H. Price promised to ask American law-enforcement agencies to take...