Word: crackdowns
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Ironically enough, the crackdown has won support from Shamir's foes, but not for reasons that would please him. Though critical of the latest hardships being imposed on Palestinians, Israeli doves applauded Shamir for unintentionally underscoring Israel's pre-1967 borders. Says Peace Now activist Tzaly Reshef: "It's a first and positive step toward building separate entities." The policy was also welcomed by Palestinian strike enforcers, who have beaten and executed Arabs in an unsuccessful effort to impose an embargo on Israel...
Burma's brief experiment with multiparty politics is over, and the country is reverting to the xenophobia and isolation of its past. In a nationwide crackdown on its opposition, the military junta led by Senior General Saw Maung has arrested at least 40 officials of the National League for Democracy, including 16 members of parliament, and some 200 rebel monks, many of them activists of the Young Monks Association. Hundreds more monks have slipped out of their monasteries and returned to their homes in the countryside. Six months after the League won a surprise electoral victory, the army has effectively...
Just as the crackdown was reaching its peak last week, Amnesty International made public another indictment of the army's brutal rule. In a 72-page special report, the London-based human-rights organization accused Burma's junta of "silencing the democratic movement" with systematic terror and torture...
...impatience with inflated health claims on labels is already producing a mild crackdown. Phoenix Fiber Cookies were touted as being low in fat and calories, high in fiber and useful for treating cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, diabetes and diverticulitis. Last May the munchables were whisked off supermarket shelves by their manufacturer when the FDA judged the claims to be false. Just last month, the agency warned six food companies, including Health Valley Foods, Select Origin and Ralston Purina, to remove cholesterol-reducing claims from a variety of packaged foods, ranging from Oat Chex cereal to Rice Bran...
Although she compared the task of analyzing Chinese politics to "reading tea leaves," Lord said she was confident that the current crackdown on dissent would not prove effective in the long...