Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times and The Washington Post, who obtained copies of the USIA blacklist from sources in Washington, have been printing partial lists of names since last week...
...blacklist with cachet...
Among the USIA 84 was Gary Hart, the only presidential contender to make the list. Also singled out were Ralph Nader, Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan, who cheerfully remarked that "it certainly is a distinguished blacklist to be on." TV news was represented by CBS's Walter Cronkite, whose only apparent threat to Reagan is in surpassing him in on-the-air avuncularity, and ABC's David Brinkley, who pronounced himself "delighted." Print journalists included the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the Atlantic's James Fallows and TIME International...
...current round of blacklist chic may be short-lived. Conceding that the practice was not appropriate for a Government agency, USIA officials said last week that they had scrapped the list...
...talking tough on the disputed issue of the Soviet natural gas pipeline, but the recent "softening" of American boycott measures against U.S. subsidiaries involved in the pipeline deal is a significant and long-overdue muffling of the President's previously intractable stance. Nevertheless, the downscaling of the President's blacklist is too little too late. Reagan must still go a long way in rethinking the pipeline...