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Events like these prompted Russian President Boris Yeltsin two weeks ago to announce a crackdown on what he described as the "criminal filth" plaguing Russia, and especially Moscow. His decree, giving the police broad new powers to conduct searches and detain suspects, drew a sharp outcry from civil libertarians and last week was overwhelmingly condemned by the Russian parliament. Yet it was a symbol of the desperation to which Moscow, the once proud seat of the Russian and Soviet empires, has been reduced...
...Will the crackdown curb illegal software duplication...
...order. On immigration, she adamantly opposes Wilson's proposals to deny the children of illegal immigrants their citizenship, schooling and even emergency health care, but may have gone too far in her own way by proposing that Army units be used in support of a U.S. border-patrol crackdown. Latino leaders quickly decried that proposal as a "militarization of the border." On the economy, though, her call for the million new jobs in the next four years has provided a clear-cut slogan that she can back up with her expertise gained in the past four years as the state...
...shatter the elections partly because violence is already out of control in black shantytowns and white suburbs alike, where burglaries, carjackings and robberies are everyday events. The incidents often have nothing to do with politics, and they scare everyone. Mandela may be planning something like a law-and-order crackdown: he was an advocate of the state of emergency that was imposed in Natal province last month, and he has been talking more and more about enacting strict gun- control regulations. Right-wing whites and township gangs can be expected to resist them...
...Hong Kong was accused of being a subversive base after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989," said Chen. "The fear now is that reporters will practice self-censorship to prevent being blacklisted by the Chinese government...