Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanded of intellectuals in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's domain. In Peking alone, 40,000 coeds from the class of '67 have been told to start new lives in frontier villages and communes far from the capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China's 375 million women, they adhere to austere...
...take riot training, then subsequently are struck in a police confrontation, there does not appear to be much cause for lamentation. All thinking people deplore overreaction to provocation that results in injury to bystanders, but historically, general assent to the rule of the mob has been followed by harsh repression when some semblance of order must be reinstituted...
...sounded all too familiar to the Czechoslovaks, who remember the virulent press criticism that preceded the tanks just a few weeks ago. Nearly everyone braced for some new Soviet move. Some Czechoslovaks feared that harsh new pressures would be placed on Dubċek or that he might be shunted aside in favor of Gustav Husák, the leader of the Slovak branch of the party, who last week seemed to have won some favor with the Soviets for his open criticisms of "errors and inadequacies" in Dubċek's former policies. Others feared, but hardly dared...
...country's land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass through the Johannesburg airport passport controls. Despite their dislike of South Africa's harsh apartheid racial policy, the newly independent Swazis are in no position to resist big brother's embrace...
Franco, hated by Basque separatists since the Spanish Civil War when he crushed their attempt to form an independent nation, retaliated with a series of harsh emergency measures. Under a "state of exception" decree, police are staging nightly search raids at Basque homes throughout the province of Guipúzcoa, hauling off truckloads of suspects for detention. To pry out information about the underground terrorists, cops have resorted to torture. They have beaten some prisoners, forced others to stand chest-high for long periods in pools of ice water, ordered a few to bend to the floor and draw...