Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turkish Air Force jets boomed over the southern provincial capital of Maras, (pop. 136,000) early last week, while crack army and commando units took up positions in the usually quiet milleniums-old market city. But not even that show of Turkish government force was enough to quell thousands of Muslim rioters who rampaged for four days through Maraş, killing 102 people and injuring nearly 1,000. Additional armored vehicles and paratroops had to be moved in. Finally, an exhausted Premier Bülent Ecevit declared martial law in 13 provinces where clashes also had occurred. Said Ecevit...
...recorded a number of legal outrages A teacher named Ho Chun-shu, for example, was said to have been executed at the beginning of 1978 for writing and distributing a "counterrevolutionary pamphlet." Last June, however, China released about 110,000 people who had been jailed since Mao's "antirightist" crack down...
Even most of the liberals on TIME'S board accept this harsh conclusion, though they add that if the wage-price guidelines can be made to work, the Administration and Federal Reserve Board will not have to crack down quite so hard on growth. Several argue forcefully that the Government should not try to head off the recession or aim at a vigorous expansion once it ends. "It would be a horrendous error to try to fight the recession by anything other than minor palliatives," says Democrat Eckstein, who heads Data Resources Inc., the nation's leading economic...
These relatively small exports will not balance the U.S.'s $30 billion trade deficit. But they add up, and they help. Most important, the sales show that Yankee traders can indeed crack the foreign market-if they show a little ingenuity...
...President is also in trouble with his promise to crack down on wasteful and costly federal regulation of business. The council that Carter appointed to do the job is stacked with regulators and headed by Douglas Costle, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Says a high Administration official: "As long as the regulators are regulating themselves, what can you expect? What would happen on the price side if you got the 50 biggest firms together and told them to run the price program...