Word: censor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disturbing revelation. In testimony last month before a House subcommittee investigating mismanagement at the Environmental Protection Agency, Midwest Regional Director Valdas Adamkus accused John Hernandez, EPA's acting administrator until he resigned last month, of allowing Dow Chemical Co. to censor the agency's 1981 draft report on dioxin contamination in Michigan, including two rivers and a bay near Dow's Midland plant. Particularly alarming to Adamkus was the deletion of one of the draft's conclusions that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination...
...specifically condemned and Israeli military proposition which grants the government powers that include the right to censor reading materials control hiring and dismissal of teachers, and require a loyalty once of those applying for work permits...
...censor addressing students in Tel Aviv had no idea that Nurit Dovrat, a reporter for the daily Ma'ariv (circ. 200,000) was taking notes of his remarks. When her story about the speech appeared last week, after the name of the talkative censor and some of his other remarks had been deleted by a more prudent Israeli censor, the news set off a clatter of protest...
Israeli officials initially professed shock and incredulity at the censor's published admissions. Said Uri Porath, a spokesman for Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "If they are listening to phone calls, it is the first time I have heard about it." Mort Dolinsky, head of the Government Press Office, said, "I have never heard of this listening to phone calls and garbling of telexes. I do not think it works that...
...later, however, Dolinsky reversed himself. He said that every accredited foreign reporter must sign a little-noted, routine document requiring him to submit in writing, in advance, the intended content of all telephone calls involving national security. If that rule is violated, the document states, "the censor will have to interfere by cutting off the call to prevent the transmission of forbidden news items...