Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts officials are hinting that the amnesty, together with the state's recent tax enforcement crackdown, may become a model for similar programs that are beginning to spring up across the country. Forty-two states have inquired about the amnesty's success, says Edgar A. McHale, assistant director of communications at the revenue department. He added that revenue officials have also been contacted by representatives of the House Ways and Means Committee, the City of New York, and even the Canadian Parliament...
Last week's mass trial and its grisly aftermath were only the latest in a nationwide crackdown on crime that has resulted in 100,000 arrests and some 5,000 executions since
...policies and were probably sincere in their desire to put Nigeria into better working order. The junta, however, has inherited Shagari's balance sheet and most of his problems. Food prices fell sharply, if temporarily, in Lagos last week. But it will take more than the announcement of a crackdown on profiteering to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production, as it had been until a few years ago. As for corruption, it has long been endemic in Nigerian life...
...benefited most from Andropov's favor was Vitali Vorotnikov, 57, the second new member on the enlarged 13-man Politburo. Appointed deputy premier of the Russian Republic in 1975, Vorotnikov was shunted off to Cuba as ambassador in 1979 after he apparently angered Brezhnev by calling for a crackdown on official corruption. Four months before Brezhnev's death, Vorotnikov was summoned home. At last June's Central Committee meeting, he was awarded a nonvoting seat on the Politburo, only to catapult last week into the inner circle ahead of five more senior men. Said a Western diplomat...
...successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...