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Anne E. McDonald, head of the secondary school program, said yesterday. "There has been no crackdown." The discussion at Monday's regular proctor meeting, she said, was "just a going over, a re-emphasizing of things from orientation...
Interviews with several proctors all of whom asked not to be identified indicated that most viewed the new policy as a crackdown and had warned their proctees that any use of alcohol was forbidden...
This month the Nicaraguan church suddenly declared that any priests who do not forsake "public positions" immediately "will be considered in open rebellion and disobedience of the ultimate ecclesiastical authority." Vatican Spokesman Romeo Panciroli claimed that Rome played no part in the crackdown. In fact, John Paul has taken a firm line against priestly partisanship in the Nicaraguan test case...
...pronged attack on dissidents and artists seemed to climax in a carefully calibrated drive for greater party discipline and ideological conformity. China-watchers were reluctant to read more into the latest crackdown than an attempt by the party leadership to prevent liberalization from getting out of control while it determines the exact place Mao should have in history. Said one Western diplomat in Peking, paraphrasing the late Chairman: "This government may still believe that they should let a hundred flowers bloom, but they don't feel they want one hundred...
...seemed headed for certain collision. Solidarity, the 10 million-member union federation, was threatening to launch a general strike that would halt every loom, lathe and furnace in the country. Warsaw's Communist leaders were ready to respond with a declared state of emergency and possibly an armed crackdown, a move that could provoke a violent civil conflict. But both sides in Poland's labor-government showdown hit the brakes at the last moment and averted a smashup by inches...