Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some commercial carriers wander from their flight paths deliberately. Shortly before the U.S. withdrew Aeroflot's landing rights at New York and Washington in 1981, after the military crackdown in Poland, the Soviet carrier was a notorious offender, frequently entering off-bounds airspace in the U.S. Two Aeroflot planes passed over New England military installations, including the U.S. Navy shipyards at Groton, Conn., where work was under way on a new nuclear submarine. Both carried passengers-and possibly spy cameras or electronic eavesdropping equipment. Lot, the Polish carrier, and the Czechoslovak line, CSA, Government also wandered into restricted zones...
...crackdown represents an important shift in how the nation views wife abuse. No longer does a woman have to go it alone in a legal system that is stacked against her; no longer does she have to deny the suggestion, either stated or implied, that she got what she deserved. Now the courts and the community are swinging to her side?and the bullying husband is beginning to pay the price. ?By Jane O'Reilly. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Duluth and Elizabeth Taylor/New York...
...like a possible crack in the military monolith supporting Pinochet, Matthei claimed that "at no moment were there clashes in the neighborhoods that I visited." Almost simultaneously, retired Army General Roberto Viaux Marambio, a right-winger and hitherto firm supporter of Pinochet, issued an open protest against the government crackdown. "I do not want to keep silent lest it imply complicity," said Viaux. "The armed forces have been employed to repress the call of national protest." The signs of dissension in the military came after a week of mounting civilian pressure on Pinochet to resign...
...crackdown drove some Bostonians to extralegal tactics. After being booted three times, one frustrated motorist tried to avoid prosecution for illegal parking by unscrewing out-of-state plates from neighboring cars and placing them over his incriminating Massachusetts ones. "It was simply impossible to find a legal space," he explains. Even the well-connected began looking for shortcuts. The Boston Globe revealed last month that Deputy Mayor Lowell Richards III had dismissed $1,080 in parking tickets for three children of Thomas McGee, the speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives...
Weinberger's crackdown was prompted in part by a Pentagon report that disclosed scandalous price increases-as much as 3,725%-for spare parts being sold to the military. Critics derided the disciplinary steps as mere wrist slaps, but Weinberger disagrees: "We want to do something to ensure that we don't continue contracts like these...