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Walesa made one of his periodic trips to Warsaw to meet with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski to discuss not only the issue of the five-day week but also censorship disputes, including the right of Solidarity to publish its own newspaper and of theaters to screen a documentary about the summer strikes. The fact that Jagielski, the regime's top-ranking Deputy Premier, who had personally negotiated the Gdansk accord, had been suddenly called in to replace a lower-ranking official for the talks showed the serious ness of the new labor-government face-off. Walesa and Jagielski were...
Written words running loose have always presented a challenge to people bent on ruling others. In times past, religious zealots burned heretical ideas and heretics with impartiality. Modern tyrannies promote the contentment and obedience of their subjects by ruthlessly keeping troubling ideas out of their books and minds. Censorship can place people in bondage more efficiently than chains...
Quite the contrary. In fact, censorship has been on the rise in the U.S. for the past ten years. Every region of the country and almost every state has felt the flaring of the censorial spirit. Efforts to ban or squelch books in public libraries and schools doubled in number, to 116 a year, in the first five years of the 1970s over the last five of the 1960s-as Author L.B. Woods documents in A Decade of Censorship in America-The Threat to Classrooms and Libraries. 1966-1975. The upsurge in book banning has not since...
That, of course, is precisely the effect that censorship always intends. And the chill, whether intellectual, political, moral or artistic, is invariably hazardous to the open traffic in ideas that not only nourishes a free society but defines its essence...
...with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev two weeks ago. Walesa discreetly declined to reveal details of his conversation with Czyrek, claiming that it merely concerned the union leader's forthcoming trip to the Vatican. Walesa then spent five hours with Deputy Premier Andrzej Jedynak discussing proposed new labor and censorship laws, Solidarity's right of access to the news media, and the farmers' attempt to form their own union. Emerging from this second official meeting, Walesa declared himself to be "very happy" with the progress of the talks...