Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, an increase in international tension was always accompanied by increases in editorial censorship. Just after Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Andrei Zhdanov issued his notorious edict subjecting Poet Anna Akhmatova and Writer Mikhail Zoshchenko to insulting criticism. Two years later Dmitri Shostakovich's music was denounced as unpatriotic...
...University is saying the executivecommittee of the Board has final say over thevoter handbook. That is tantamount to censorship,"he said...
...which prices are allowed to float. An official report stressed the importance of "mandatory" centralized planning. The reformers' emphasis on stimulating consumer demand was criticized in the People's Daily, the party newspaper. In addition, the State Council set up a new press and publications office with full censorship powers and the authority to license publications and close down "illegal" printing operations...
...attend a seminar at the Academy of Sciences, where he was applauded by his colleagues. On Thursday, Bonner insisted there would be no further visits for the rest of the week. The next day Sakharov sat for interviews with two U.S. television networks, again with no signs of censorship or restraint. While the years in exile have clearly taken their toll on Sakharov's health, they have just as clearly failed to diminish his spirit...
...enforce the new system, the government's Bureau for Information established a Media Operations Center, whose job will be to examine all news copy and film before it can be published or broadcast. Equipped with only six telex machines, the cumbersome censorship operation will make the work of journalists vastly more difficult -- and often impossible. South African papers will be obliged to submit editorials on sensitive subjects to the censors. Though that requirement obviously cannot apply to foreign publications, spokesmen said the government would be taking note of editorial comment about South Africa by foreign publications. Indeed, last week...