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True, that terror subsided after 1956, when, by Khrushchev's decree, millions were freed from the giant "archipelago" of prisons and camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. But the significance of Gulag lies in its thrust into the present?and future?of the U.S.S.R...
...Egypt from a nine-year self-imposed exile I in London. Amin, often attacked as too pro-Western, had refused to come home as a protest against the imprisonment of his brother by Nasser on charges of handing over state secrets to the CIA. Mustafa Amin was recently freed on Sadat's orders, together with a number of political prisoners. Among them was former War Minister Mohammed Fawzi, jailed in 1971 for allegedly attempting to overthrow Sadat...
...result of last week's moves, U.S. citizens no longer must pay an "interest equalization tax" when they buy foreign stocks. In addition, U.S. corporations are freed from a complicated set of limits on their foreign investments, and U.S. banks will no longer be asked to abide by voluntary Federal Reserve Board guidelines on the amount of money that they can lend abroad...
...doctrine originally freed radio and television from a 1940 FCC ban on airwave editorializing and crusading. But it also required broadcasters to give "reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues." The FCC promised not to tell broadcasters how this was to be done; it reserved the right to judge whether they handled the balancing of issues "reasonably and in good faith...
...average, and has brought protests from civil libertarians. Late in 1972, for example, he jailed the Los Angeles Times's Washington bureau chief, John Lawrence, for contempt of court when the newsman failed to produce tape recordings of a Watergate-related interview (the appeals court promptly freed Lawrence). Although sensitive about criticism, Sirica reacts typically by fighting back. "A reversal record doesn't mean that they're right and you're wrong," he objects. "It just means they've got the last word...