Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political issue that Seeger definitely sees as seriously affecting all people is censorship. He dubbed it "one of the most important issues alive today...
determined effrontery. On a larger scale, would-be reformers in the Soviet Union and East Europe have used the Communist governments' ratification of Helsinki as a lever to press for liberalization on many fronts, such as censorship and immigration-with scant success. The Kremlin and the other East bloc regimes have no intention of permitting the free flow of ideas and people that Helsinki calls...
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi startled the world last month by relaxing the iron rule she had maintained under a state of emergency declared in mid-1975: she ended press censorship, freed political prisoners and scheduled parliamentary elections for next month. Whatever her political motives, her timing in one respect was sound. The Indian economy, described by a U.S. expert as "a great lumbering elephant," has turned so frisky that Mrs. Gandhi need have no fear of the economy becoming an issue in a free election. As she said in announcing the vote, "Anyone can see that today the nation...
...clear that, for the time being at least, the state of emergency would continue. But she pledged to "restore substantively those political processes on which we were compelled to impose some curbs," so as to allow a free campaign. A few days later, she formally ended domestic press censorship (censorship of foreign publications had already been eliminated) and ordered the state governments to release all political prisoners...
...land is less of a worry to most Beirutis, however, than the potential loss of prewar political freedoms. At the request of President Sarkis, the Parliament has voted extraordinary emergency powers to Premier Selim Hoss, including authority to impose press censorship, rule through military tribunals and ban public assembly. The Syrian army, acting on its own swaggering gering authority, has shut down eight Beirut publications that were critical of a peace-keeping arrangement in which the Syrians control everything down to mail delivery and traffic. Four of the eight were small pro-Iraq or pro-Libya journals-thus in effect...