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When a hot breeze of scandal blew away Gary Hart's candidacy, the other contenders felt a chill of apprehension. Would each be asked, as Hart was in his last press conference, whether he had committed adultery? Would evasion stamp a politician with Hester Prynne's scarlet letter...
...regime lost no time cracking down on other forms of dissent. The day after the coup the Fiji Sun said in an editorial, "Democracy died in Fiji yesterday." That night Rabuka shut down all newspapers. In tropical Suva, the big chill...
...Hart wanted so much to create a new America, to enact a new vision, why ^ did he roll grenades under his own tent flaps? There is something in his Arctic eyes, his rhetoric, that gives a chill...
...Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1942 defined propaganda in its broader sense, without designating it as true or false. Therefore, he said, the Government's use of the term to classify the films "has no pejorative connotation," and to require that they be registered under that law does not chill First Amendment freedoms. The dissenters complained that the majority reasoning smacked of newspeak. Wrote Justice Harry Blackmun: "It simply strains credulity for the court to assert that 'propaganda' is a neutral classification...
Increased pursuit of child sex abusers raises concerns about damaging false charges. -- "Propaganda" labels do not chill free speech...