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...intended by its U.S. producers to be a tribute to the late Egyptian President, but when the TV film Sadat was screened recently for a censorship committee that included Egyptian Minister of Culture Muhammed Radwan, something had obviously been lost in the translation. Charging that the 1983 film, which stars Louis Gossett Jr., 47, contained "historical errors that distort the accomplishments of the Egyptian people," Radwan banned from his country not only Sadat but all films produced or distributed by Columbia Pictures. Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played...
...lines were really not impoverished. It was Meese who led the Administrations push for tax exemptions for colleges that racially discriminate. And it was Meese who has worked actively to enact the President's notorious directive of March 11, 1983, which seeks to create what is essentially a lifetime censorship system for more than 100,000 top government officials who have access to classified information. Certainly, if there is a "thoughtful" side to Reagan's rock ribbed conservatism, Ed Meese hasn't done much to highlight...
...controversy leading to the censorship order began last August. While calling for a new trial for a defendant, Denver U.S. District Judge Fred Winner accused three Justice Department tax attorneys of "repeated excesses" in the course of the investigation, including having "browbeaten and ridiculed" one grand jury witness and "threatened" another. Following standard practice, the judge's ruling was published in paperbound form and was set for a hardcover edition by West Publishing Co., the private concern that issues volumes of federal and state court opinions. But the Government lawyers charged that Winner's opinion contained "defamatory...
...sure, the issue was never one of total suppression, since both court records and the paperbound publications remained readily available. Still, the Government did end up having second thoughts. Tax Division Chief Glenn Archer's signature was on the censorship petition, and at first he defended it to reporters. But after the storm of criticism, the department contended Archer had not known what his assistants were asking for. "This doesn't represent the policy of the Justice Department," said Deputy Attorney General Edward Schmults. "It was a mistake, and it won't happen again...
...country." Although Kindergarten was given preliminary approval for showing, a government agency must now decide whether it can be distributed throughout the Soviet Union and overseas. Yevtushenko insists he will make no cuts. "I won't change anything now," he says. "I will not give in to censorship. If you give one finger to censorship, it will swallow your whole body and spit out bits of your flesh...