Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idle plant and triumphantly put out an eight-page tabloid edition. Santos, now ill and living in Paris, cabled congratulations to his staff. Four days later, El Tiempo confounded everybody a second time by getting its own big presses running again. Government diehards slapped on a tough new censorship which could stop the newspaper from publishing. But for the moment, El Tiempo was selling more papers than ever before...
...sent Farouk I into exile, legally abolished aristocracy; declared war on corruption, promised land reform to break up the great estates, raised the rich man's taxes (on caviar, sport cars, wine, other luxuries), lowered the poor man's prices for sugar and cotton cloth, abolished censorship, relaxed restrictions on foreign investments. It was a revolution of the middle class, engineered by soldiers but. broadened by the support of businessmen, professional men, office workers and students who believed they had found a leader...
...officers were disappointed and mad. Why hadn't Aly spelled out his proposed social and economic reforms instead of merely saying that reforms were on the way? The Premier had been long on generalities, short on specifics. His only hard & fast promise was a pledge to lift press censorship. To a country tingling for change, this was hardly enough...
...Mohammed Naguib has done a good job: changed the laws to encourage foreign capital; refused to reconvene the Parliament, which the corrupt Wafd Party dominates; freed the press, abolished censorship, the secret police and titles of nobility. He has vowed to limit the size of landholdings and to attack "indirect taxes whose burdens fall on the poor...
...seem brassier than ever. They took their themes from the world around them: war, occupation, poverty, misery and human courage. Sex was merely incidental to such plots, but since it was handled in the casual manner in which Italians regard sex, it startled U.S. audiences, accustomed to the sniggering censorship of the Breen office...