Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soldiers and sailors teamed up with police last week on joint patrols in cities across the country, the question of just what they were there for took on fresh urgency. Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and Interior Minister Boris Pugo, who drafted the order in secret last Dec. 29, say the new patrols are intended to combat an odious side effect of economic and political liberalization: a steep rise in violent crime...
...signals from Moscow offered much cause for optimism. Gorbachev's decree on economic crime gave security squads the right to raid government enterprises, cooperatives, private businesses and even joint ventures involving foreign firms, and to carry out audits of their wares, cash holdings and accounts. The crackdown is supposed to wipe out the black market, but it may well trample underfoot the first fragile growth of free enterprise. Said Deputy of the Russian parliament Artyom Tarasov, a new Soviet entrepreneur: "This is no longer the politics of the free market but the politics of discipline...
With the Baltics cooling down, Gorbachev's decision to send troops into the streets everywhere else seemed all the more bizarre. Even though the Defense and Interior ministries' order on joint patrols was dated a full month ago, Gorbachev gave his official authorization for the decree only last week. When he did publish the directive, it was considerably watered down and accompanied by provisions for local watchdog committees on "the activities of law- enforcement organs...
Reformers had been incensed by the permission for the joint patrols -- and even armored vehicles -- to control "mass actions by citizens" and "social- political activities." Their anger led Pugo to explain that the reference was not to "rallies" but to "hooliganism and other criminal offenses and % nothing else." Pugo also said that each republic had the right to decide whether it wanted the army to join forces with local police. Taking him at his word, the Baltic republics and Georgia, Armenia and Moldavia promptly turned down the offer, and the Russian Federation called on Gorbachev to suspend the entire decree...
...Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and joint chiefs chair Gen. Colin Powell will fly to the Gulf to prepare for the possibility of a ground offensive...