Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Distribution of birth control information by the University health service (a violation of Massachusetts state...
...press may not be able to hold out much longer. At Russian insistence, three important magazines-Literárni Listy, Reportér and the intellectual weekly Student-have already been banned. The Czech National Assembly last week was called into session to pass a "temporary" press-control bill that re-establishes censorship. As if to prepare for the event, Russian troops moved out of Czech newspaper offices and permitted journalists to return to their desks-where their activities will be easier to observe and control...
...Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn had the right to transfer teachers out of its district. In an unusual show of solidarity, the teachers' union, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan and the central board of education all insisted that it did not. Although not opposed in theory to community control of schools, the union insisted that teachers be protected from arbitrary dismissals. The conflict degenerated into an ugly battle that had racist overtones...
...strike that was illegal under state law, he also raised the stakes by insisting that his teachers would not work unless McCoy and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville com mittee are fired. "Mob rule must go," he said. Leaders of the local committee conceded that they no longer could control neighborhood opposition to the return of the teachers and did not intend to try. At week's end the schools were again shut down, and New York's Mayor John Lindsay had asked James Allen, the state's education commissioner, to try to resolve the dispute...
...Plessey had reason to be disturbed-if only because its managing director, John Clark, 42, had announced his own intention last month of taking over English Electric. But Clark reckoned without Arnold Weinstock, 44, British G.E.'s acquisitive boss, who made his company the industry leader by winning control of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. in a bitter takeover battle last year. Weinstock heard the news of Clark's designs on English Electric while vacationing at his Wiltshire farm, promptly began his own negotiations with the company...