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Perhaps the most significant signal of Doe's intentions came in July, when he promoted himself from master sergeant to general and commander in chief of Liberia's 5,000-man army. The promotion was accompanied by a crackdown on dissent. The twelve civilians in his 17-member Cabinet were drafted into the army with the rank of major, a move that made them subject to military discipline and curbed their ability to speak out in public. Most important, Doe forced a showdown with Weh Syen, his staunchest critic in the P.R.C., who had publicly lashed...
...judges ordered U.S. marshals to haul five local union leaders off to jail for defying court injunctions against the strike. Some leaders were marched away in handcuffs and shackled from waist to feet in chains?standard procedure for a federal arrest?adding a note of high drama to the crackdown...
...most important part of Reagan's program, however, is the crackdown on illegal aliens. The Administration wants to increase the INS budget by $150 million, partly to provide more agents to patrol the Mexican-American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that...
...Mujahedin hope the clergy's brutal crackdown will create sympathy for their cause, just as it occurred in the final years of the Shah's reign. In that sense, the mullahs seem to be playing into their hands. Firing squads-killed more than 50 "counterrevolutionaries" last week; raising to at least 153 the number of people executed since Banisadr was deposed as President on June 22. Jails are so packed that new suspects are no longer detained, just beaten and dumped in alleys. Laments a prominent Tehran lawyer: "Iran has become a horror movie...
...well-behaved. But Tuesday night. I told them if I see beer cans you're going to go to the dean's office," the proctor added. Summer school officials made it clear that out next talk to kids was to serve as the final warning...It's definitely a crackdown," he added...