Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet television, remarkably, did not censor any of the prickly questions and answers from its domestic broadcast. That may have been a signal, however, that Gorbachev intends to be as tough as his predecessors on human rights issues. Despite its audience of 7 million, Gorbachev's interview ran second in the French ratings to a showing of The Burned Barns, a film starring Alain Delon and the late Simone Signoret (see MILESTONES...
...conservative wing with banner-waving ditties like In America, which offered the observation that Lady Liberty "may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell." Lou Reed pointed up the irony of rock, freshly politicized, being attacked for excessive raunch, by recalling "those people who are trying to censor records" before launching in- to his classic Walk on the Wild Side. Live Aid may have been slicker and more elaborate, but FarmAid had the edge musically. There were frequent appearances throughout the 14 3/4-hour event by Co-Organizer Willie Nelson, whose heavy responsibilities never weighted the sensual ease...
...CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. Fundamentalists over the past generation have come to believe that public schools are a major force in establishing secular humanism. The religious right leads in agitating to restore prayer to the classroom (a cause favored by 69% of Americans, according to Gallup) and in seeking to censor school libraries and textbooks. Discussion of abortion in a high school text is the cause of protest in towns like Oak Hills, Ohio. Under attack in Madison, W. Va., and Peoria, Ill., are books of sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love, A Way of Life...
...subject to action by the CRR. It is only Violent and or disruptive action which are expression of political or moral beliefs that are unacceptable and which are the concern of the CRR. In Short, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities does not exist in censure or censor, directly or indirectly, anyone's political or moral beliefs--rather, it is constituted to discipline those who, in expressing such beliefs, abridge the civil rights of members and guests of the academic community...
...Government officials to ask the media to keep secrets voluntarily. The press honored such requests before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and on various occasions during the Viet Nam War. However, the Government's legal power to block publication if the press refuses to censor itself remains uncertain. In the celebrated Pentagon Papers case in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. could bar disclosures only if they caused "irreparable damage...