Some suspect he'll attempt a crackdown he has just introduced restrictions on Pakistan's TV channels.
This order clearly provides the authority if not the pretexts for a crackdown by Soviet forces.
The current scandal could improve his chances or prompt a crackdown that might dash any hope of his getting power.
But reaching a deal which could involve a harsher crackdown on trafficking and more aid for alternative crops will not be easy.
Rather, the crackdown appears to be occurring in just six federal districts the four in California, and those in Montana and Colorado.
But this was translated into a crackdown on civil liberties, an unnecessary war and some very dark days for the United States.
It is a leap from such issues of private communication to the crackdown that officials of various countries usually thuggish ones keep trying against Internet-based information.
Perhaps even more alarming, General Boris Gromov an outspoken critic of democratic reform and advocate of increased "discipline, " read crackdown was named Deputy Minister of Interior.
Still, given the range of possible outcomes in these situations brutal crackdown, regime change, civil war, transition to democracy it is also clear that technology is not the whole story.
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Their original plans for three days of ceremonies across Tibet would have been a security nightmare and would have been even worse had there been no crackdown in March.
The crackdown elicited a tentative and unwanted word of approbation from Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, who says that it made possible the American-brokered agreement to resume the peace talks.
The governing Socialists' proposals for cost-cutting, and a crackdown on public-sector unions, were close to what Mr Manos had attempted unsuccessfully to push through while in office in the early 1990s.
It excluded Iran after U.S. objection to the attendance of a Syrian ally seen as aiding the regime in its domestic crackdown and Saudi Arabia, a main backer of the Syrian opposition.
In this view, the discontent in the barracks was stirred mainly by a government crackdown on officers with links to right-wing paramilitary groups and the hardliners' bluff has now been called.
In January, he promised to crush terrorists with an "iron fist" a pledge that was followed by the military unleashing its harshest crackdown on the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs in February.
In the March budget George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, announced a crackdown on schemes that help companies and individuals avoid paying stamp duty on property sales another Channel Islands speciality.
If Gorbachev forgoes a brutal crackdown in the Baltics in favor of economic, and particularly energy leverage, such coercion should be viewed by the West as equally deplorable if less bloody.
The church's new role also appears to have political dimension as well: In 2010, Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega negotiated the release and exile to Spain of prisoners remaining from a 2003 crackdown on 75 dissidents.
Secession in several Indian states has been tamed by a combination of force and political carrots after a military crackdown, the rebels have been offered regional autonomy and a chance to rule through the ballot.
In explaining the cola crackdown, officials cite the city's rising obesity rate about 24 percent of adults, up from 18 percent in 2002 and point to studies linking sugary drinks to weight gain.
Long a close ally of Sheikh Hasina's Awami League cheering her crackdown on Islamic extremists and insurgents from India's north-east, and being open to more trade India's ruling Congress party may now, sensibly, be hedging its bets.
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The Center for Security Policy today expressed disbelief that within the same week that the Bush Administration effectively rewarded Moscow for its economic crackdown with a new trade agreement Washington is granting the Soviet Union massive new access to strategic technologies.
Some argue, convincingly, that a crackdown on multiple borrowing and a cut in the maximum interest rate could throw desperate borrowers into the jaws of loan sharks, often in the form of yakuza although the police and legitimate lenders are trying to stifle the unsavoury end of the trade.
The Bush administration has, in the words of Richard Nixon, made one thing perfectly clear: It will not let a messy Soviet crackdown on independence-minded republics, democratic reformers and free market entrepreneurs interfere with ever warmer U.S.-Soviet relations so long as Moscow does not alter its foreign policy course.
While the Soviet leader has not demonstrated the kind of heinous behavior evidenced in Baghdad although signs of a military crackdown in coming days may signal a change there his government has not delivered the kind of systemic economic reform that President Bush just this July insisted was a precondition for such American largess.
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