Word: crackdowns
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...Senator and protege of incumbent President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Galan was the clear front runner to win the presidency in next May's elections. But by killing him the narcotrafficantes may have finally gone too far. Instead of further intimidating the government, the murder of Galan helped intensify a crackdown that by last week had escalated to what a drug lords' communique called "absolute and total...
...Kiszczak announced that he was handing over the task of forming a government to Roman Malinowski, president of the Peasants' Party. Jaruzelski never asked Malinowski to form a government; perhaps he calculated that Malinowski would have been unacceptable to Solidarity because of his association with the 1981 martial-law crackdown...
...central Polish town of Plock, Mazowiecki (pronounced Mah-zoh-vyet-skee), 62, is a devout Roman Catholic with strong ties to church activists who oppose Communist ideology. A close adviser to Lech Walesa, Mazowiecki helped form the union in 1980 and was jailed for a year after the government crackdown in 1981. Trained as a lawyer, he is editor of the union weekly, Tygodnik Solidarnosc, and was a key negotiator in the round-table talks that led to legalization of Solidarity and opposition participation in last June's elections...
...there's more to come, warned Thornburgh, saying, "This probe is part of an expanding Department of Justice crackdown on white-collar crime in all its various guises, from Wall Street to LaSalle Street to Main Street. The activities uncovered at these exchanges, the largest of their type in the world, cannot be tolerated...
...National Congress President Oliver Tambo and nationalist leader Nelson Mandela began their careers as lawyers. The fact that Tambo is in exile and Mandela in prison illustrates how perilous that course was. The LRC had its origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg, then head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helped design a program. With money mainly from American foundations...