Word: bureaucratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such official attempts to silence student publications are not new. In the past year, bureaucrat-censors have imposed censorship on the Daily Texan at the University of Texas and forced the resignation of three editors of the Daily Californian at Berkeley. Palo Alto police ransacked the offices of the Stanford Daily in an attempt to confiscate pictures to use as evidence against a group of demonstrators. Many college functionaries--like BC's President W. Seavey Joyce--and public officials--like Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn, who prosecuted the Heights editors--apparently believe that freedom of the press is a right...
Such official attempts to silence student publications are not new. In the past year, bureaucrat censors have imposed censorship on the Daily Texan at the University of Texas and forced the resignation of three editors of the Daily Californian at Berkeley. Palo Alto police ransacked the offices of the Stanford Daily in an attempt to confiscate pictures to use as evidence against a group of demonstrators. Many college functionaries--like BC's President W. Seavey Joyce--and public officials--like Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn, who prosecuted the Heights editors--apparently believe that freedom of the press is a right...
Such official attempts to silence student publications are not new. In the past year, bureaucrat-censors have imposed censorship on the Daily Texan at the University of Texas and forced the resignation of three editors of the Daily Californian at Berkeley. Palo Alto police ransacked the offices of the Stanford Daily in an attempt to confiscate pictures to use as evidence against a group of demonstrators. Many college functionaries--like BC's President W. Seavey Joyce--and public officials--like Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn, who prosecuted the Heights editors--apparently believe that freedom of the press is a right...
Fear and deep sullen hatred are everywhere evident among Bengalis. Few will talk to reporters in public, but letters telling of atrocities and destroyed villages are stuck in journalists' mailboxes at Dacca's Hotel Intercontinental. In the privacy of his home one night, a senior Bengali bureaucrat declared: "This will be a bitter, protracted struggle, maybe worse than Viet Nam. But we will...
Easy Skill. Classifying keeps many an otherwise idle bureaucrat occupied. Busiest of all are Defense Department employees who bring, as might be expected, a rare spit and polish to the job. More than 300 Defense officials, says Florence, have been given "original" authority to classify documents; hundreds of thousands of others have what is termed "derivative" power to classify. A virtual army marches through the Pentagon shooting down reams of innocent documents-truly a case of documental genocide. "In the past several years," says ex-classifier Florence, "I have not heard one person in the Department of Defense say that...