Word: crackdowns
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Meanwhile, Israelis had reason to ponder the potential for violence in their midst. They were shocked last week by the detention of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 49, a spiritual leader of Israel's militant West Bank settlers, who was held for questioning as part of a government crackdown on anti-Arab terrorism. No charges were laid against Levinger, but 25 other Israelis, including at least two active officers, some reserve officers, and soldiers from Israeli commando units, are now under arrest. Among the incidents under investigation are the 1980 car bombing of two West Bank Arab mayors, a July...
...confessed that he had been paid $21,000 to carry out the killing. Lara, a vigorous opponent of narcotics traffickers, became the first Cabinet official to die at the hands of the Colombian mafia. Within hours of his death, Colombian police, army and security forces launched the most extensive crackdown on the narcotics trade in the country's history, one that promises to help the U.S. in its uphill struggle to stem the ever rising tide of Colombian cocaine and marijuana. The U.S. has backed the Colombian government's antinarcotics efforts with $7 million in aid since...
Many Colombians doubt whether the government will be able to sustain its crackdown for very long. They fear that once the state of emergency is lifted, the drug traders will be back in business. However, John Phelps, a U.S. drug-enforcement official in Colombia, believes that if the government's war on drug traffickers continues at its present pace, the mafia's ability to mass produce and distribute narcotics will be crippled. Certainly, President Betancur has much of the population behind his efforts to stamp out the drug trade. A Colombian woman may have best expressed the attitude...
...arrests are part of a continuing government crackdown on suspected Jewish terrorists. Those taken into custody were said to include several West Bank settlers and some reserve officers in the Israel Defense Forces. The police hope that the arrests may shed some light on earlier attacks on Arabs, including the June 1980 bombings that maimed two West Bank mayors. Of the foiled bus attack, Interior Minister Yosef Burg said, "Thank God, the disaster was prevented. Terror produces more terror...
This kind of double standard has become especially glaring ever since the government launched an unprecedentedly severe crackdown on crime last summer. Although 6,000 Chinese have been executed, high-level party leaders continue to escape prosecution, let alone imprisonment. "Is everybody really equal under the law?" asked the People's Daily. Earlier this year, the paper published the shocking story of Duan Yuanlai, former director of the Changde City Tobacco Plant. In 1969 he was charged with murder. A witness's false evidence won his acquittal. In 1978 he was charged with rape, but no action was taken when...