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...week plus room and board. Most stay only a year, and few have legal working papers. The immigration law that took effect this month will make the employers of such workers liable for fines up to $10,000, though the Immigration and Naturalization Service does not plan an aggressive crackdown on domestic help...
Already trussed up in the world's most elaborate net of emergency regulations, South Africans braced for a further crackdown after Botha's ruling National Party won an impressive victory at the polls earlier this month. The National Party, which has been in power since 1948, captured 52% of the popular vote and 123 out of 166 Assembly seats. At the same time, many whites, fearful of political concessions to the country's black majority, lined up behind the total-apartheid Conservative Party, giving it 26% of all votes cast and easily eclipsing the liberal Progressive Federals as the country...
...last week's demonstration proved to be a victory for both the government and the Democratic Progressive Party, a technically illegal political organization founded last September. By avoiding a crackdown, Chiang preserved the appearance of a liberalization program that would lift martial law and legalize opposition parties. The D.P.P., for its part, bridged divisions in its ranks to stage the peaceful demonstration...
...that is not the Prime Minister's only problem. Gandhi's party has suffered a string of local-election defeats. Gandhi is hoping the crackdown in Punjab will help his party retain power in next month's state-assembly elections in neighboring Haryana...
...raid into Zambia, where South African soldiers killed five people in the town of Livingstone, near Victoria Falls, undoubtedly strengthened the Botha government's standing among its right-wing supporters. So did a crackdown on demonstrations by students in Cape Town and Johannesburg. At the University of Cape Town, where some 300 white, black and mixed-race students gathered to protest the commando raid, police used tear gas, leather whips and bird shot to break up the meeting. On May Day, fearing another wave of unrest, the government banned rallies called by 20 black unions...