Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warsaw University some 5,000 students walked out of their classes and marched around the campus in silent protest. At the Huta Warszawa steelworks, the site of large-scale resistance following last December's military crackdown, a strike siren wailed at midday, and up to three-fourths of the workers laid down their tools for a quarter of an hour. Entire departments quit work at some other Warsaw factories, and employees at the F.S.O. car plant held a peaceful demonstration outside the plant's gates...
...Israelis have also suffered casualties: two soldiers have been killed, and 49 soldiers and civilians have been injured, mostly in stoning incidents. To the Israelis, the most dramatic effect of the army crackdown in the West Bank, however, has been the rise of a national debate over the basic question of how Arabs under Israeli rule should be treated. A spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared last week that Jerusalem's aim in the West Bank was to block the growth and influence of the Palestine Liberation Organization. But he added, "Personally, I have reservations...
...refused entry to America in large numbers. Observers attribute the change in policy to an American fear triggered by the sight of thousands of Black Cubans and Black Haitians at the borders. As Newsweek put it, "The suspicion lingers that if 15,000 white Poles fleeing the crackdown showed up in New York Harbour, they would not be shipped off to Krone or Fort Allen [two Haitian detention campa...
...Crackdown on drunken drivers raises hopes-and doubts
...legal crackdown is prompting a predictable legal response. Fearing the escalated penalties, those arrested are more inclined to pay lawyers $600 for a simple defense, or even $6,000 for a trial...