Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane that needed an overhaul 200 hours ago, with a pilot who hasn't had any sleep for days and keeps himself in shape with vin rouge." By March, when Mecklin moved to Hanoi's dreary Press Camp to cover the fall of Dienbienphu, stiff censorship...
When the top editors resigned, other staff members took over the paper, but they, in turn, resigned after the University imposed faculty censorship on the paper. This spring, the new managing editor, running for president, took a stand against segregation. He was unanimously defeated by a student-faculty board of control. But in the final spring edition, the student who was finally elected president continued the paper's former stand and printed a column headed, "Segregation Is Wrong...
...Queens College, on the other hand, not the administration, but the Student Council threatened censorship of the campus newspaper this spring. After the Crown printed an advertisement from the Labor Youth League, which is listed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, the Student Council ruled by a vote of 19-6 that any college publication "which carries such ads shall be subject to immediate suspension and possible revocation of its charter...
...Mirza was sent in to restore law & order. Tough, Sandhurst-trained Mirza drove to his new headquarters at Government House in Dacca along a five-mile route pointedly lined with armed troops and cops. He ordered the arrest of more than 600 Reds and assorted troublemakers, clamped on press censorship, prohibited meetings of more than five persons and sent troops swarming through the local capital to take over the secretariat, railway depot, radio station, powerhouse and telegraph and phone offices. For the first time in months East Pakistan quieted down and from Huq's HQ not a sound...
...life." But a month ago, in Japan, Capa changed his mind. LIFE asked him to cover the war in Indo-China, and he was quickly on his way to Hanoi. After he arrived he made a typically cocky pronouncement to newsmen, who have been complaining that censorship was preventing them from getting news. "You guys . . . don't appreciate that this is a reporter's war," said Capa. "Nobody knows anything and nobody tells you anything, and that means a good reporter can go out and get a beat every...