Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the atmosphere in Peking last week was redolent of more repressive days. Hu's public demotion was certainly not as cruel as the brutal treatment he received during the Cultural Revolution, when his head was shaved and he was forced to crawl on his hands and knees. But the painful return to forced self-criticism did not seem far off when Hu owned up last week to "mistakes on major issues of political principles." China's newspapers also ran self- criticism, bizarrely apologizing for stories written last fall. No less chilling was the group of scientists who appeared...
...male model." The ruling opens up the possibility of radical -- and potentially costly -- changes in the employment practices of American business. Says Virginia Lamp, an attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The ruling is disappointing and a shock. It was a victory for proponents of special treatment for women in the workplace...
...country's Central Asian region. Poppies are also cultivated legally, mainly for use in medicines. The Soviet approach to treating abusers of such drugs tends to be punitive. Under a new law, youthful offenders may be incarcerated for up to two years in a police-run "preventive educational treatment center." The job of these institutions, according to a recent article in the Soviet magazine Man and the Law, is to cure and "re-educate" inmates...
Eyes on the Prize is indispensable not just for its lucid treatment of the milestones of the era but for its keen eye on less noted events. A tense encounter between a band of demonstrators and a deputy sheriff on the streets of Selma, for example, turns into an impromptu "debate" between people from different planets: "Do you believe in equal justice?" "I don't believe in equal nothin'!" The narration by Julian Bond is admirably restrained, and - those interviewed (from such movement leaders as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael to old foes like Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark) look back...
...apartment. Pravda charged that Berkhin's only crime was that he had done his job too well, riling local authorities by exposing government corruption in a coal-mining region of the Ukraine. The paper concluded that the secret police had committed "gross violations of socialist legality" in their treatment of Berkhin...