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...Buckleys are far from broke. Great Elm, however, is no longer the same. Its gracious 18th century mansion is being cut into a complex of fine condominiums. Priced from $175,000 to $200,000 each, they will, if sold, help ease the burdens imposed by the SEC's crackdown on the family's businesses...
...Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. Shouted one protester: "Come out if you are not a coward!" The police soon moved in to arrest the teachers, along with a number of angry nurses who were besieging another government building. Government officials immediately outlawed further demonstrations as part of a new crackdown on dissent...
...added, prose and politics entered the pages of samizdat, but the Soviet authorities cracked down after the 1962 publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," a novel that explores life in a Soviet labor camp. Despite the crackdown, samizdat became increasingly political during the '70s, Garbanevskaya said...
Until his electoral victory, however, Walesa had little real cause for celebration last week. Ever since the first round of the union convention three weeks earlier, Polish authorities had been talking about a possible crackdown and the Soviets had been threatening economic reprisals, if not outright intervention, unless Solidarity curbed its political demands. Walesa and his allies needed to work out some kind of accommodation with the Communist government in Warsaw. In this setting, with the prime responsibility his, Walesa found himself under blistering attack by union members...
From God they may have come, but Matta played a large part in their shaping. The abbot of St. Macarius monastery near Cairo, Matta was summoned to Alexandria by Sadat a week before the crackdown. Sadat and Matta discussed ways of defusing the looming crisis. Sadat asked Matta how far he could push Shenouda. The abbot says he outlined Sadat's limits in dealing with the Pope. When the ouster was decided on, it was Matta who submitted the names of five bishops who would collectively take over the Pope's functions...