Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese have reversed Pol Pot's most radical policies, allowing some Cambodians to return to the villages and cities from which they were banished as a result of the Khmer Rouge's forced resettlement of farmlands. Hanoi has also allowed a number of activities that were strictly forbidden under Pol Pot, "such as falling in love, taking a little time off from work, and dancing," says Labbe. "There are even some private barbershops and ladies' hairdressing salons in Phnom-Penh." Electricity was operating in every major city Labbe visited. "It seemed strange to be spending my nights...
...says that people are eating "very bad-ly." The Cambodians working for the new regime are being paid in rice and corn. Still, Cambodian refugees in Thailand report that there are hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the outskirts of every Cambodian city because the Vietnamese have forbidden them to return home for fear of encouraging un rest. These families are threatened with starvation, as are the 600,000 refugees along the Thai border, and the 250,000 Cambodians who worked for former regimes and now fear to register with the authorities. As a result they have...
...five long weeks they have been held under threat of death in the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Their arms have been bound, and they have been forbidden to speak to one another. Their captors have subjected them to intense questioning, and even threatened some of them at gunpoint. All the while, crowds of fanatical followers of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini have demonstrated outside the embassy walls...
...returning from Paris or Palo Alto in short skirts instead of chadors; it means 30% inflation, pollution, an open door to all the depressing vitality of the junk culture; it means the young leaving the villages and becoming infested with all kinds of Hefnerian tastes for hi-fis and forbidden pleasures. It is sometimes difficult for a Westerner to understand that to a Muslim, the cultural dismantling of Islam, the governing apparatus of his life and civilization, is a tragedy that amounts to a form of annihilation...
...gypsies take to the highways in camper trucks as wandering salesmen and secondhand dealers, the treatment that they encounter is especially rough. Owners of almost 90% of West Germany's campsites, claiming that the gypsies would pester vacationers by peddling their wares, have tacked up signs reading GYPSIES FORBIDDEN. Police periodically descend on camping gypsies with guard dogs and submachine guns and force them to move on. "We are the original campers," Rose complains. "Yet now everyone can live like a gypsy in West Germany except gypsies...