Word: censor
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...Filho's death in 1969, his son, Julio de Mesquita Neto, took over the paper. He has continually defied the government's request for self-censor ship. Instead, when the censors cut sto ries, he filled the blank space with excerpts from Poet Luis Vaz de Camoes epic work Os Lusiadas, about Portuguese adventures in the Orient. The paper has also resisted in other ways...
...avoid "provocative" stories. In the process, they have restricted VGA correspondents to the point where many of the newsmen feel that legitimate stories are being suppressed. Some editors and reporters in the radio's U.S.S.R. division have grumbled about interference from the glavlit-the Russian term for official censor...
Last month Deputy Assistant Director Shirley sent out a written order stiffening a 1967 rule that Voice correspondents must get advance approval from local American embassies before they undertake a story. A number of correspondents feel that the Shirley letter has given the embassies new power to censor their stories in advance. Shirley has promised, but not yet issued, a clarification that would limit the embassies' ability...
Anti-Foreman Fetishes. Fight sentiment in Zaïre strongly favors Ali, President Mobutu's friend, and the government-controlled press has been careful to censor such patronizing Ali comments as "We're gonna have a rumble in the jungle." Indeed, loyalty to Ali, America's best-known athlete abroad, is so intense that officials are concerned about Foreman's safety. Many Zairians are expected to carry anti-Foreman fetishes into the stadium. Their passions will hardly be reduced if Foreman floors Ali in the first few rounds...
...approval from moviegoers has led some liberal critics to suggest that the film be banned because people are not responsible enough to reject its analysis. However, the movie seems to stand less as an incitement to copy Kersey than as a cathartic experience and any individual's presumption to censor the film would amount to a tyranny analagous to Kersey...