Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motorcycle bomb was one of a series of similar assassination attempts on senior officials, though the first since April. In recent months the government had steadily intensified its crackdown on the militants, arresting thousands and executing 15. Last week's carefully planned assault looked like the radicals' reply to the suppression. Their brazen defiance was evident in the timing -- just before noon on a business day -- and the location -- the middle of the capital, a block from the Interior Ministry and from Tahrir Square, known to millions of tourists as the site of the Egyptian Museum...
...they are prone to lesions and injuries in sexual intercourse," says Dr. Pers-Anders Mardh, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uppsala, Sweden. "Imagine intercourse occurring millions of times under these conditions." The AIDS epidemic alone is enough to justify a crackdown on child prostitution, says Mardh. "There is too little attention being paid to the health of these children," he says. "Yet they are playing Russian roulette with their lives...
...P.L.O. to seek the conference table, not the car bomb; or that, to the U.S. government, the P.N.C. and the P.L.O. were wholly distinct. For the Israeli right and its American supporters they were one and the same thing. Thus in 1988, at the height of the Israeli crackdown in occupied Palestine, when Secretary of State George Shultz proposed talking to Said and another Palestinian-American professor, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, to discuss his Middle East peace effort, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vehemently objected. The meeting took place anyway...
...equal sum. The women, who speak no English, are then forced into brothels in Houston, Detroit and other cities. Compelled to repay the marriage fees and plane fares, and threatened with violence, "these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry O'Rourke. A local crackdown has sizably cut down the traffic since the late 1980s, but it still continues, and crime rings are now supplanting some of the Korean women with Salvadorans. In Los Angeles the trade is export oriented: White Americans have been lured to Japan on singing, dancing and modeling contracts and then coerced into...
...kidvid crackdown has its troublesome aspects. For one thing, the rules apply only to broadcasting stations -- not to cable channels, which can continue to lure young viewers with all the cartoons they want. The creation of a new category of educational fare, moreover, may simply ghettoize such programming and turn kids off. The very notion of educational TV often seems to reflect narrow, schoolmarmish notions. Live-action shows are almost automatically preferred over cartoons, and some sweetly innocent shows, like Barney and Friends, seem to win approval largely because they shelter kids from the rude real world -- a strange notion...