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Allende, the Crimson would have us believe, was a benevolent man whose sole desire was greater freedom, justice, and prosperity for all Chileans. The violations of individual rights--the seizures of property, the attempts to censor or repress the opposition--have been ignored, or rationalized according to the altruist "morality." The connections between the economic fallacies of socialism and the inflation and shortages that crippled the Chilean economy have been evaded. The Chilean entrepreneurs and professionals who refused to submit to government plunder and enslavement have been vilified. Those who dare to speak out against Allende's tyranny have been...
Signed Copies. Just when it seemed that some mobility and communication would be restored for reporters in Santiago, the junta introduced censorship. Quickly labeled "file now, die later" by the journalists, the system required reporters to deposit signed copies of all their files with the censor for possible use as "judicial evidence." The punishment for "false" reporting, spokesmen said, might be "the opposite of being thrown out." At the Transradio telex office in Santiago, an amiable military officer serving as censor was so anxious to avoid talk about "revolution" that he cut out references to it in a personal message...
...that standard to seizures of evidence for criminal prosecution. They therefore must decide whether lawyers for both sides should have an opportunity to argue their case before seizure in order to prevent the Government's right to gather evidence from being used in effect as a power to censor...
does not presume to anoint itself as a censor behind which the American Government may do what it pleases without disclosure and public discussion." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker pointed out that the original Justice Department inquiry was hardly vigorous. Therefore, both Justice and the Senate "need to know that an independent press is holding their feet to the fire." The Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch all argued along a similar vein: that bringing out the full truth must take priority over assuring successful criminal prosecutions...
...knowledge of agency operations. Each time he was obliged to submit the manuscript to his superiors for approval. "I made a conscientious effort to fudge details, blurring locations and identities so they couldn't be recognized," Hunt told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith. But occasionally his superiors would censor a scene or a theme, he recalled, "and I'd learn that some episode I thought I'd made up from whole cloth had described an actual operation-one that I'd never heard about...