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...opportunity to steer between the wishful thinking of the doves and the vengeful daydreams of the hawks, to introduce more realism into American foreign policy. In fact, he has shown signs of doing precisely that in recent months. The crude attempt by bureaucrats in and out of uniform to censor reality, to manage not only news but history, undermines that realistic trend. It also undercuts the trust the country still has in Reagan himself...
...establishment of a censorship bureaucracy far larger than anything known in our national experience." Charles Rowe, editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, noted that the clearance rules will enable future officials to review the proposed public statements of earlier ones and protested, "If an Administration can censor the comments and criticism of its predecessors, the potential for political mischief is frightening...
SUCH A BROAD, unrestricted directive portends an alarming era--of government intrusion into individual privacy and First Amendment rights. The censorship rule--a ban affecting nearly 113,000 workers in the highest levels of government--would effectively curtail informed criticism, permitting one Administration to censor the writings of previous Administration officials. In last week's House hearings, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Willard, the Administration official who drafted the proposals, characterized the nondisclosure pledge as an "appropriate" counterintelligence technique...
...have been on this course before. After some of our efforts in the early 1960s. Dean Watson asked the H.A.A. to censor our creativity; presumably the good dean found the task too repugnant to his own sensibilities. After some impasse the reviewing task passed from 60 Boylston Street headquarters to the field house: Jimmy Cuniff, who handed out the sweats and towels at Dillon, liked our stuff real good. I believe our generation and its alumni survived...
Freedom of the press is a goal enshrined in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but for the citizens of most of the U.N.'s 158 member countries that pledge can seem hollow: governments may censor publications and broadcast outlets if they do not own or operate them directly; officials sometimes imprison journalists for what they print; bureaucrats frequently have the power to decide what information the international wire services can distribute within their nations' borders. Spurred by the Soviet Union, some Third World members and executives of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...