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...inaugurated. Why doesn't the President let the Federal Communications Commission act as it was intended to. as an independent agency of the Government, assigned to regulate radio and television in this country? I do not think that this office was meant to be used as a censor. The President and Vice President seem quite able to defend themselves without outside...
...reason isn't always audience apathy. A satirical revue called Jesus, As Seen by His Friends-a fairly savage commentary on Israel's government establishment by Playwright Amos Kenan-lasted for only seven performances before it was closed down by Levi Guery, the official government censor. Guery explained that he found the revue "offensive to another religion...
Protest. Kenan protested the censor's decision to Israel's highest court and lost. So far, his only support within the government has come from Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who in his capacity as Minister of Education and Culture had underwritten $1,400 of the revue's production costs. Allon has moved that the censorship laws applying to the theater, which were written during the years of the British Mandate, be repealed. His proposal is on the agenda for Cabinet action, but government watchers predict that if any decision is taken, it will be to keep...
...been operating openly on plush Roxas Boulevard before martial law was declared. "I hope, gentlemen," Ramos declared, "that I have not unduly interfered with your social life." Marcos has also banned the bombas, pornographic films with titles like Climax of Love and Naked in the Dark. Strangely, the Manila censor also closed down Nicholas and Alexandra...
...Connell's efforts delayed briefly by the Regents last week followed an opinion handed down last April by Florida's attorney general which held that a university president lacked authority to censor or control the editorial content of a campus newspaper. Apparently O'Connell feels that a change is in order. The arrogance of his contention in challenging the state attorney general and trying to circumvent basic tenets of an unfettered press-is amplified by the trivial nature of the issue from which the controversy first arose...