Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year term. The National Assembly which voted him the office was Pérez Jiménez' own private Parliament, hand-picked last November after an embarrassingly bobbled election in which the returns ran so strongly against his candidates that he had to clamp on a three-day censorship and doctor the electoral count to wrap himself in the much-desired cloak of legality...
Obviously, the way to fill in the blanks is different from the methods of getting news outside the Communist world, i.e., sending a reporter to the scene. Stories from correspondents in Moscow, where censorship is a grown-up art, are only a starting point in the search for the real news...
...this is no substitute, of course, for the kind of coverage which is a matter of routine in most countries-the right of correspondents to travel freely, talk to anyone they meet, interview government officials, and file their stories without censorship. But it is often surprising how much can be put together-with a handful of clues, a lot of hard work, and a detailed background of experience-about the events the world's most powerful police state is trying to hide...
...news of Stalin's illness to the world last week, the stories came from London instead of Moscow. The six Western correspondents in Moscow were roundly scooped by their own home offices because they couldn't get through the censors. But their London bureaus, accustomed to Russian censorship, were ready. They use monitoring services in London which teletype Moscow broadcasts into their bureaus, thus were able to send out the news as soon as it was broadcast. Later the Western correspondents in Moscow got through to Paris and London-by phone. But not until hours later did their...
...first state board of censorship on literature was set up in Georgia last week. Its purpose: to keep "obscene" literature out of the state. When the Georgia legislature passed the bill to create the board last month, Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill warned that the definition of obscenity is "so vague" that the law "lends itself to distortion and abuses." The bill's definition of obscenity: "Literature offensive to chastity or modesty." Last week, when the three-man board took office, it became plain how right Editor McGill had been. Board Chairman James Wesberry, a Baptist minister, was asked...