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...suits filed in Boston and Springfield courts are part of a nationwide crackdown on delinquent borrwers of federal education loans. Ackerstein said...
Silvio Cardinal Oddi, 74, the Italian member of the in group, runs the congregation that deals with priests not in religious orders, managing, for instance, the crackdown against priests in politics. Affable and highly conservative, he is a friend of John Paul's; the Pope enjoys his dry humor and no-nonsense air. Another Italian, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, 70, is nominally the Pope's top aide, but has little influence on internal church affairs: he is now largely restricted to temporal and diplomatic matters, in which the Pope recognizes his supple mastery...
Harvard researchers are also concerned about an ongoing crackdown by the Reagan Administration on the flow of academic information. National Security Directive 84, instituted in March 1983, requires approximately 120,000 federal employees--if they wish to have access to classified information--to sign a agreement by which they will submit for government approval all subsequent speeches and publications...
...most dramatic sign of ferment came during last week's National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association in Peking, only the fourth such meeting in the 35-year history of the People's Republic and the first since 1979. Delegates freely discussed how China should never again experience the crackdown that followed Mao's "Let a hundred flowers bloom" movement in 1957 or anything like the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, when many writers were banished to manual labor for failing to toe the ideological line. What attracted the most attention, however, was a speech made by Hu Qili...
...latest crackdown comes during South Africa's most violent civil unrest in eight years. The upheaval began with August's elections for a new tricameral Parliament, which for the first time gives a limited voice in the central government to the country's 2.8 million people of mixed race and 850,000 Indians. The 4.7 million whites still have the final say on all important matters and, of course, blacks remain totally unrepresented. Riots later swept the economically depressed black townships to the south and east of Johannesburg. Then came a Transvaal labor stoppage: 800,000 black...