Word: censorship
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...morning seminars in the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, panelists mulled over such perennial problems as censorship and whether fiction will survive. The murmur of opinions was regularly punctuated by that strange modern cacophony, the sudden chorus of digital wristwatch alarms. From the audience, Helen McDonald (The Life and Times of Tondaleah Rosponowitz) asked, "Why are all these authors here? Is Key West the Paris of the '20s, the Tangier of the '60s?" Residents Thomas Sanchez (Rabbit Boss) and Philip Caputo (DelCorso's Gallery), who had been soberly addressing the topic "War and Peace hi the American...
...that a panel of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Oklahoma had granted a temporary injunction. The appeals court rescinded its order last Tuesday, but constitutional experts were still shocked that the court had agreed, however briefly, to the prior restraint. "For 21 days there was a censorship order outstanding against an absolutely trivial publication," said First Amendment Attorney James Goodale indignantly...
Another troublesome point was U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. In general, the commission took an uncompromisingly hard line: The U.S. must not settle for "static containment" of a heavily armed Marxist dictatorship. Instead, the U.S. should keep pressure on the Sandinistas to schedule free elections, end censorship and otherwise liberalize their regime, without necessarily abandoning power...
...press, for resisting censorship...
...mainly as fetters on the Sandinistas, who have shipped arms to Salvadoran rebels, imported hundreds of Cuban military advisers and drifted toward one-party Marxist rule. At least for the moment, however, the Sandinistas have all but ended the arms traffic, begun to send the Cubans home, eased press censorship and promised to hold elections in 1985. In January, a State Department official said, the U.S. will meet with the Sandinistas to encourage them to come up with an election framework acceptable to the Reagan Administration...