Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final session of the symposium of Action for Children's Television (ACT), speakers suggested censorship in advertising and advocated that the networks take responsibility for providing appropriate subject material for children...
...junta, headed by Colonel George Papadopoulos, imposed martial law and abolished all political parties. It imposed severe censorship on newspapers, banned trade union activities, dissolved student organizations. Within the first week of its rule, about 10,000 people--leftists, centrists, student and trade union leaders--were arrested and exiled to remote island concentration camps...
They are both leaders of repressive regimes, where press censorship and other violations of civil rights prevail...
...violence, which violated the traditional "Thai kar Thai" (Thai kill Thai) taboo against communal bloodshed. When NARC began arresting "subversives" last month, hundreds began literally running scared-sleeping in a different friend's home every night. To many Thais, NARC's crackdown and its strict press censorship suggested that Seni's paralyzed democracy would be replaced by the kind of lazily corrupt military rule the country had endured in the 1960s and early...
Firm Control. The trial is certain to attract wide attention-especially since the Indian government lifted all censorship restrictions on foreign correspondents a fortnight ago. No similar relaxation in the government's firm control over the domestic press has taken place. On the contrary, the right of dissent has virtually disappeared...