Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show that Sadat's government was tyrannical, Atteya will try to call as witnesses some of the 1,536 people who were summarily arrested and imprisoned during the late President's September crackdown on dissidents. As for the defendants, he said, "They asked me to defend them not as persons but as a cause. They are sure they are going to their deaths...
...called the previous decade "a period of ecclesiastical decadence in which the people who had started it later on became incapable of stopping the avalanche." After Ratzinger was appointed Archbishop of Munich in 1977, he barred Liberation Theologian Johann Baptist Metz from a professorship and engineered the Vatican crackdown on his former colleague Küng. Ratzinger's shift prompted charges of opportunism; students broke up one of his campus appearances last year with booing and jeering chants...
...dealing with doctrinal problems in Rome, the Jesuits are also facing life-threatening new trouble in mainland China. Without any official announcement, the government has reportedly arrested at least four Jesuit priests in Shanghai, along with several Roman Catholic laymen. The most prominent of those rounded up in the crackdown is Father Zhu Hongshen (known to Westerners as Vincent Chu), 65, who was released from prison in 1979 after serving 23 years. Church sources in Hong Kong say that the Communist regime has charged him with giving false information to his numerous foreign visitors and with following orders from...
Solidarity's response to the crackdown came quickly today, in the form, as predicted, of a call for a general strike and apparently scattered street demonstrations. The general strike, in all probability, does not mean that workers will stay home tomorrow, observers said; rather, Solidarity plans a call for workers to seize their workplaces--factories, shipyards, coal mines--and barricade themselves inside...
Asked what the U.S. would do "if the crackdown came from Polish internal security forces," rather than Soviet troops Weinberger replied...