Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South Florida crackdown sends drug dealers elsewhere
...late 1979, President Carter declared a partial embargo on grain exports and shipments of many types of technology to Moscow. Sixteen months later, Reagan lifted the grain embargo, saying that it was hurting American farmers more than the Soviet Union. In response to last December's martial-law crackdown in Poland, Reagan strengthened the ban against technology exports to the Soviets but let the grain trade continue...
...life inside the Soviet Union was very much the opposite of mellowing. In a new book, Postwar Soviet Politics, Historian Werner G. Hahn, a former CIA analyst, argues persuasively that some incipient but promising trends toward moderation were wiped out by a further wave of purges. The crackdown was in part a reaction to what was seen in the Kremlin as a new menace of "encirclement" and counterrevolutionary "rollback" emanating from the outside world...
...trouble began about a month ago, when John Shirley, a United States Information Agency official and Yale alum, asked the Glee Club to participate in a USIA broadcast for Voice of America radio Aired December 13, the program will mark the first anniversary of the Soviet crackdown in Poland, the move which eventually destroyed the labor union Solidarity and squelched the freedom of the Polish people...
...contractors is probably just a reaction to the fading public faith in the new arms race. Both the President and his military advisors rely on polls, and the ten-year low in Americans who want a buildup has surely affected policy decisions. And, as one contractor complained, the crackdown on wastefulness actually seems to be a ploy to regain support for the overall escalation: "The Administration is out to show that it's being tough with us so it can keep public acceptance of its big military budgets...