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...dilemma. The more "democracy" it allows the students, the more they will continue to demand. But the more their "freedom" is abridged, the more inevitable will further protests become. Unless Deng and his colleagues play their hand with exquisite skill, the result could be just the kind of harsh crackdown they desperately fear and seek to avoid...
...calls a day from irate Cantabrigians complaining about the illegal use of permits by their neighbors and commuters working in the city, officials said they will start cracking down. The first area that will be hit by this enforcement effort is East Cambridge, officials said, adding that the crackdown will move northward towards Harvard Square...
Harvard students will not likely be affected by the crackdown, says Robert Burns, Manager of the Harvard Parking Office. Students who live in University-owned housing are ineligible to purchase visitor parking passes...
...ENDLESS SERIES OF NEW RESTRICTIONS and repressions in South Africa should not numb the world to the significance of each new abuse. In the last two years the white government has progessively heightened restrictions on the press and has arrested thousands of opponents, but a new crackdown last week is a milestone in the Pretoria government's retrenchment against change. Last Thursday the government announced new press restrictions that destroyed any pretense of a free press, and on Friday the police carried out a self-proclaimed "swoop," rounding up not only opposition activists, but also reporters and even two Swiss...
...nation out of the quagmire. Most notably, the ramrod-straight Polish army general, who has lately tried to soften his austere image by mingling with factory workers and common folk, now seems prepared to pry loose the lid that clamped shut on critics of his regime after the military crackdown five years ago. Indeed, the Polish leader admitted last week that some actions recently taken by his own officials "were mishaps, like an elephant in a china shop...