Word: censored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist regime was so disturbed that it tried to censor all mention of the riot, and the secret police dogged the footsteps of foreign newsmen. But at the corner of Marx and Lenin streets the cross still stood, protected by groups of angry women-emphatic evidence that the faith of Poland's Christians is still a force that the Communist bosses challenge at their peril...
...Minister of Justice François Erasmus before Parliament. "The government has decided to bring a halt to the reign of terror." Next day Verwoerd went a step further, declared a state of emergency in all the major population centers of the nation. It gave the government power to censor the press, close or take over any business, make arrests without warrant, require workers to return to their jobs or go to jail...
...held for half an hour by a band of trigger-happy insurgents who feared that publicity would expose them to ultimate government reprisal. Once he had his story, he faced the communications barriers thrown up by French military censorship, not the least of which was that getting to the censor meant climbing 492 steps...
Today the Ministry of Guidance is totally under the Communist thumb, and each morning the military censor duly sends to the Iraqi Times the latest Red China news bulletins with passages marked for reprinting. But for the first time, the Communists themselves are divided. Last week not one but two Communist parties asked for licenses-the orthodox outfit and another run by a maverick Marxist editor named Daoud Sayegh, who has done nothing to scotch rumors that much of his money comes out of the pocket of Premier Kassem's government...