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...disturbing revelation. In testimony last month before a House subcommittee investigating mismanagement at the Environmental Protection Agency, Midwest Regional Director Valdas Adamkus accused John Hernandez, EPA's acting administrator until he resigned last month, of allowing Dow Chemical Co. to censor the agency's 1981 draft report on dioxin contamination in Michigan, including two rivers and a bay near Dow's Midland plant. Particularly alarming to Adamkus was the deletion of one of the draft's conclusions that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination...
Easter Week is a major holiday throughout Latin America. But in revolutionary Nicaragua there were a few differences in the seasonal festivities. The Sandinista government announced that it would ban all radio broadcasts of Easter Masses unless the regime could censor pastoral sermons. Then, as half the country prepared to flock to the beach after their religious observances, the others girded...
...specifically condemned and Israeli military proposition which grants the government powers that include the right to censor reading materials control hiring and dismissal of teachers, and require a loyalty once of those applying for work permits...
Israeli officials initially professed shock and incredulity at the censor's published admissions. Said Uri Porath, a spokesman for Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "If they are listening to phone calls, it is the first time I have heard about it." Mort Dolinsky, head of the Government Press Office, said, "I have never heard of this listening to phone calls and garbling of telexes. I do not think it works that...
...later, however, Dolinsky reversed himself. He said that every accredited foreign reporter must sign a little-noted, routine document requiring him to submit in writing, in advance, the intended content of all telephone calls involving national security. If that rule is violated, the document states, "the censor will have to interfere by cutting off the call to prevent the transmission of forbidden news items...