Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trudeau said the Post got "four or five hundred phone calls the morning it didn't run--people assumed it was some form of censorship...
...questions are asked by Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev, a leading Soviet intellectual and close friend of the man who for years has had to bear the weight of official Soviet censorship -Alexander Solzhenitsyn. That such questions are being put forward by a Soviet citizen who has been given official permission to live in London for a year -and presumably could be "recalled" home for simply asking them-is significant enough. Even more important, they have been raised in the first biography by a Russian of the country's greatest living novelist...
...Israelis have long been known as one of the world's more fractious peoples. The Knesset is a turbulent forum for their divisions, as are their newspapers, despite official censorship of anything involving "state security." Moreover, Orthodox Jews, who represent about 25% of the population, are often pitted against their secular-minded countrymen in both matters of law and face-to-face encounters. Regardless of whether or not he is a believer, in matters of birth, marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem...
Brazil's prim, puritanical military government, which last January banned certain erotic drawings by Pablo Picasso as obscene, has moved ahead with its campaign to keep the country pure and clean. In a tough new press-censorship decree, it banned 60 foreign and domestic magazines-including Playboy, Penthouse, Lui and, curiously, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel-because they offended "morality and proper behavior" by exploiting erotic themes. The decree also provided that all magazines circulating in Brazil must henceforth submit copies to police censors to determine whether they conform to government standards. If the journals are not approved...
...many public-affairs programs but also demanded the power to kill privately financed programs that would be transmitted on Government-financed interconnection facilities. In protest, the heads of many of the 233 local stations gathered in Washington last month to fight what seemed like an attempt at Government censorship. Several members of the CPB, including Chairman Thomas Curtis, a former Republican Congressman from Missouri, finally agreed to an elaborate compromise that would have allowed the CPB control over all Government-funded programs but would have given it only partial control over other programs...