Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junta's first decrees, Thai politics indeed appears headed for a kind of sleep. Within a day, 3,000 suspected leftists were rounded up and herded into detention camps. Political parties and any gathering of more than five persons were banned; newspapers, magazines and broadcasts were placed under censorship; and membership in Communist organizations was made punishable by death after trial by courts-martial. A midnight-to-dawn curfew was established on the night of the coup, then dropped-after revelers who ignored it were shot. Constitutional rule will eventually be restored, said Sangad, but only "when the nation...
Diana Trilling called it censorship; Lillian Hellman called it "unpleasant business." But to some, last week's go around had the look of a literary row par excellence. The clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book...
Died. Morris L. Ernst, 87, civil liberties and labor lawyer who served as an adviser to U.S. Presidents; in New York City. Ernst had a passion for causes, and very few were lost. An ebullient foe of censorship, he broke down the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. He served as counsel to the American Newspaper Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union; he defended Communists and Frank Costello, while deploring both. Concerned in later life that too many restraints had been removed, he declared that he would not want "to live in a society without limits to freedom...
...recent trend of labeling scientific judgments as "irresponsible" on the basis of their social implications illustrates the tendency to suppress unpleasant possibilities. Since when have we advocated censorship? If people are made wary of political attacks we are in danger of compromising our intellectual integrity. And to erode intellectual integrity is to obliterate free discussion. How then will we ever arrive at any truths, and how can we protect ourselves from oppression...
...meet the growing guerrilla threat from black nationalists operating from across the Mozambique border, the Smith government has implemented domestic press censorship, announced the biggest military mobilization since the breakaway from Britain in 1965, and begun talking of an "offensive" strategy that suggests the possibility not only of civil war at home but also of air strikes against Mozambique. Said Lieut. General Peter Walls, Smith's army commander: "We are switching from contain-and-hold to search-and-destroy, and adopting hot pursuit when necessary." It was the Rhodesian bombing of a Mozambique village in February that...