Word: crackdowns
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...tokens were manufactured by the same firm that produces New York's. But city subway officials and Connecticut transportation officials failed to confer in advance on the token plans. With each side soon blaming the other for the foul-up, New York Mayor Ed Koch launched a new crackdown on fare cheating, Connecticut-style. Some operators of video-game parlors that employ special tokens have discovered another illegal use for the Connecticut tokens: Pac-Man players are getting a quarter's worth of action...
South Florida crackdown sends drug dealers elsewhere
...detention, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski conveyed a new sense of self-confidence rather than any weakness toward Poland's still rebellious population. Now the focus is on a special session of parliament that has been set for Dec. 13, the first anniversary of the military crackdown. Many Poles believe that Jaruzelski, who has successfully contained resistance, will choose that day to lift martial law altogether...
...late 1979, President Carter declared a partial embargo on grain exports and shipments of many types of technology to Moscow. Sixteen months later, Reagan lifted the grain embargo, saying that it was hurting American farmers more than the Soviet Union. In response to last December's martial-law crackdown in Poland, Reagan strengthened the ban against technology exports to the Soviets but let the grain trade continue...
...life inside the Soviet Union was very much the opposite of mellowing. In a new book, Postwar Soviet Politics, Historian Werner G. Hahn, a former CIA analyst, argues persuasively that some incipient but promising trends toward moderation were wiped out by a further wave of purges. The crackdown was in part a reaction to what was seen in the Kremlin as a new menace of "encirclement" and counterrevolutionary "rollback" emanating from the outside world...