Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market. "The only book that would sell well would be one that exposed Nixon as a crook," says Vice President Donald Smith of Thomas Y. Crowell. Undaunted, Safire has demanded arbitration, as provided for in his contract with Morrow. "This," he says, "is the most pernicious kind of censorship - the censorship of the gutless...
...justice of the prisoners' protest. Roger Champen, an Attica inmate during the revolt, told a Harvard audience last week that New York has done nothing to relieve the conditions which led to the outbreak: slave wages for prison labor, inedible food, guard brutality, restricted political and religious expression, censorship of mail, poor health care and inadequate educational facilities. Only the number of guards has been increased...
Levine said that he objects to any form of government censorship, however he said that some industry self-regulation must be exerted...
...newsmen appealed, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later rapped West by declaring that "censorship in any form-judicial censorship include-is simply incompatible with the dictates of the constitution and the concepts of free press." It also described the conflict as a "civil libertarian's nightmare." Nevertheless, the appeals court refused to lift either the contempt citation or the fine. Reason: the court said that Dickinson and Adams should have obtained an injunction against West's order before publishing their stories. Because of the Supreme Court's refusal to intervene, that West's would...
...years in jail and a $10,000 fine for violators. But Governor George Wallace has already appointed an ethics commission to administer the new edict. As its chairman, Wallace last week chose Leslie Wright, president of Samford University in Birmingham, who is widely known for his ironfisted censorship of a student newspaper...