Word: crackdowns
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...crackdown followed weeks of criticism of Yeltsin's reform policies and reflects the Kremlin's general nervousness in the run-up to the December session of the Congress of People's Deputies, where the dominant communists plan to seek the government's resignation and a curb on free-market reforms. In his other show of clout, Yeltsin chose to disband a 5,000-strong police force controlled by one of his major rivals, legislative speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. Ironically, the so-called Cardinal's Guard was originally formed to protect the Russian legislative building after last year's failed coup. Yeltsin...
Brookings wrote an article entitled "Harvard'sHaven" in the September 11 issue of the MissionHill News criticizing the policy. Within the nextfew days, Brookings said, the crackdown began...
...growing numbers, financially desperate communities are making what seem like pacts with the devilish, opening their arms to garbage, toxic waste and nuclear refuse from distant states. Such trade-offs of trash for jobs seem certain to increase in number, given the growing crackdown by states on local landfills, impending EPA standards for construction of dumps and the recent Supreme Court decision prohibiting trash tariffs to discourage out-of-state dumping...
...been his mounting assault on Shi'ite rebels in southern Iraq. As one countermove, Secretary of State James Baker met in Washington with leaders of the Iraqi opposition. At the U.N., Britain, France and the U.S. are drawing up a new resolution to authorize force if the Shi'ite crackdown is not stopped...
...bathhouses where AIDS was spread by promiscuous, unprotected sex have been closed in many cities, either by government crackdown or just by a declining marketplace. The same thing happened to most of the "back room" bars where, in dim or unlit areas, patrons had anonymous sex. But at some establishments the era of reckless abandon never ended, and at others it is coming back...