Word: crackdowns
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...that point he was not really a writer anymore but a full-time lawyer. The eight years he spent as a deputy U.S. prosecutor included Operation Greylord, a widespread crackdown and sting operation that nabbed corrupt judges and other scoundrels in the Illinois legal system. Turow successfully prosecuted, among others, a state attorney general and a circuit-court judge...
...first years in office were largely occupied with restoring order to a divided and sometimes violent campus. The late 1960s saw escalating student anti-war protests, culminating in the occupation of University Hall and a violent police crackdown ordered by President Nathan M. Pusey...
...things turned out, Walesa was never formally asked to this year's ceremony. And Havel declined to attend, since Czechoslovakia's first free parliamentary elections since the Prague Spring crackdown in 1968 are scheduled for tomorrow...
...official report on the upheavals, Chen Xitong, Beijing's hard-line mayor, claimed that 200 civilians were killed and more than 3,000 were wounded. "Several dozen" soldiers died, he said. His figures for civilians are almost universally dismissed as outrageous underestimates. On the day of the crackdown, Chinese Red Cross sources told reporters that 2,600 people died and 10,000 were injured, although the organization later denied it. Amnesty International and some of the protest participants put the number of dead closer...
...Israel to exercise "maximum restraint." Secretary of State James Baker said the U.S. might discuss the deployment of U.N. observers, a measure debated at a special U.N. session in Geneva last week, underscoring American displeasure with Israel's refusal to engage in a peace dialogue. The army's massive crackdown eventually cooled the widespread rioting in the territories, after three days of violence left 15 dead, including an Israeli murdered in Jerusalem, and at least 800 wounded. But the sudden escalation proved that the uprising lives, despite both Israeli force and Arab infighting, making a mockery of a prediction three...