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There were also ominous new signs of an impending crackdown. At week's end the government expelled a number of Western journalists, including the representatives of TIME and the three major U.S. television networks. The object of such expulsions, said one Bonn analyst, appeared to be simply "to close the windows as much as possible...
Charleston's Post called Days' letter "an arrogant piece of folly." Attorney and School Board Member John Graham Altman described it as "a parting shot by some people who are losing their jobs shortly. Let the Government sue." Charleston politicians chose to see the crackdown in even pettier terms-as an attempt to create an embarrassment for South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who will head the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 97th Congress. Thurmond agreed. Said he: "South Carolina didn't go to Carter this year, and it's a little funny that they decide...
...other circumstances, the dissidents would be targeted for harassment or arrest by Kama's government, which needs to prove its toughness to Moscow. But the alliance between workers and dissidents, even if temporary, gives the dissidents a kind of protective coloration. "We won't allow for any crackdown, particularly on KOR," Walesa told TIME. "They are our friends and they can always count...
...told a mob of his supporters who gathered outside the gleaming white National Palace in Port-au-Prince that "intellectuals and thinkers have the right to exercise democracy day and night. All I ask is that they respect me." He also added that "democracy is not license." Meanwhile, the crackdown sparked rallies and prayer vigils in the major Haitian exile communities in the U.S. Correctly or not, the arrests will be used by the exiles as evidence that all the Haitian boat people-there are more than 30,000 in south Florida alone -are political refugees and thus eligible...
...most visible and welcomed success has been the crackdown on terrorism. Last summer the death toll from the political warfare between armed extremists of both left and right had reached 30 a day; now the average is less than...