Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Failoni said that he stands by his letter, butthat he has "always been opposed to" censorship ofstudents...
Before he left the Soviet Union for the U.S. in 1980, Vassily Aksyonov was part of a restless generation of writers chafing at centuries of censorship and inspired by the irreverent styles of the West. The Burn, a novel written in the early '70s and first published in the U.S. after the author's arrival, is his best-known satirical howl against Soviet oppression and conformity. Aksyonov has published other books in exile, but now, after a decade of personal and artistic freedom, he has written one for the American market. Generations of Winter (Random House; 592 pages; $25) will...
...people took seriously the official 1990 announcement that press censorship would be relaxed, but the timing turned out to be right for DeTik (the name means a second of time). Since it began publishing in February 1993, the tabloid has built a circulation of more than 450,000, nearly doubling in just the past three months. Fueling the sales surge has been a series of articles on government corruption and exclusive military interviews that had Indonesians, especially rival editors, wondering when the government would finally put its foot down. That moment came last week, when DeTik editor Eros Djarot received...
Last week newspapers pulled Doonesbury comic strips that suggested the Catholic Church once sanctioned same-sex weddings -- not the first time this has happened to cartoonist Garry Trudeau. Indeed censorship of the comics has a long and proud tradition...
Gary Mueller, the paper's former news editor, called the paper's exclusion from the mailing "de facto censorship...