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...rebellious Polish workers were demanding higher pay and lower food prices. But this time, the strikers went far beyond those bread-and-butter issues by insisting on a number of sweeping political reforms. Among them: free labor unions that would have the legal right to strike, the abolition of censorship, and freedom for all political prisoners. In effect, they were asking for the unthinkable: that the Communist Party in a Communist state give up its monopoly of power...
...live telephone interview from Washington. The next day every newspaper headlined the charges, which the government denied with increasing firmness and wrath. Achituv himself gave four interviews, unprecedented for a security chief, including one on television in which the cameras focused on a tape recorder emitting his voice. (Israeli censorship law forbids the chiefs name or photograph to be published.) Achituv flatly denied that he had encountered interference in his investigation. His resignation, he said, had been a routine request to step down at the end of the year. What is more, he added, it had been submitted "before...
...more--the impact of one of the biggest protests ever organized by campus feminists was twisted and muted by the arrests. Within an hour, instead of basking in the glow of a job well done, they were feverishly preparing a one-page statement explaining that they did not condone censorship and arrests. The people in the saga who acted with the purest motives ended up in worst shape; defending themselves against the charge that they had caused the arrest of two fellow students, Quincy House feminists had no time to exploit the energy and fervor they had raised...
...riots and protests were harbingers of the coming revolution. By and large, Western leaders accepted the Shah's assurances that his opposition was merely a gaggle of "Islamic Marxists," abetted by "foreign agents and traitors." Eventually, the Shah made some concessions to placate his critics; he lifted press censorship and released some political prisoners. By then it was too late...
...staying. The Soviets even refused to allow the U.S. Ambassador to deliver his traditional Fourth of July speech and the French Ambassador to make his traditional Bastille Day speech, because both contained references to Afghanistan. Soviet officials also refused to transmit a French TV report on the Bastille Day censorship...