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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...
...course, the Inter-Club Council has insisted for years that "The clubs as organizations do not serve alcohol to anyone," a regulation included in all punching invitations and duly ignored by the clubs. But this time, the crackdown on booze--at least at punching events--seems to be for real. The Inter-Club Council seems intent on taking the fun out of exclusivity and gender discrimination...
Having lived through a nightmare, he went to some lengths to spare others. Climbing quickly through the military ranks after World War II, Jaruzelski was army chief of staff when Solidarity came into being in 1980 and became the Communist Party leader the following year. His 1981 crackdown did not lead to witch hunts or secret trials, as the 1956 invasion did in Hungary. There was none of the petty vindictiveness of Czechoslovakia's Soviet-backed Communist clique. "He has always been a politician with bad cards who has tried to minimize the damage," says Professor Jerzy Holzar, a historian...
...bloodshed. On the other hand, Mandela contends with some justification that right-wingers in De Klerk's security forces are aiding Buthelezi and that the President has been reluctant to put a tighter leash on them. Last week he charged that De Klerk's "Iron Fist" crackdown policies in the townships ignored the problem and that peaceful negotiations were in jeopardy...
Despite these changes, however, this week's developments held a positive sign for students looking to party as they had in years past. The College, it seems, is not interested in an absolute crackdown on drinking, and will not do more than the law requires...