Word: crackdowns
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That was clearly not Castro's intention. Complaining that too many Cubans were committing the sin of "trying to get rich individually," he launched a crackdown. He ordered the farmers' stands replaced by state-run enterprises that sometimes charge lower prices but, consumers now complain, offer much less variety. The new rules for dwellings did not preclude Cubans who want to profit from buying and selling their own homes. But in an effort to end the speculation that had begun creeping into the market, homeowners are now allowed to sell only to the government -- at its price. "The glories...
...measures were so sweeping that they jabbed a public nerve and produced a thunderous reaction both at home and overseas. Opposition leaders redoubled their attacks against the government. The Detainees Parents' Support Committee vowed that it would challenge the latest crackdown in the courts, while the Free the Children Alliance declared that the police statement "criminalizes legitimate protest...
...crackdown, but protests grow...
Publishers from Hearst to Hefner have used the maxim "Sex sells" to highly profitable advantage. Businessmen in southern China were following that capitalist road until last week, when Communist Party officials in Guangxi province shut down 39 popular magazines and journals. It was the biggest press crackdown since the campaign against "bourgeois liberalism" was launched four months...
...adventure or kung fu. Some claimed to be serious literary or art journals, including a scholarly legal review that carried articles like "Why the Breast of a Woman Was Tattooed." While some Chinese writers agree that the more vulgar periodicals should be weeded out, they are concerned that the crackdown may herald tougher censorship...