Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest issue of the samizdat magazine Robotnik (The Worker) began circulating last week. It focused on an injustice that weighs heavily on the Polish proletariat: lack of any real representation. Robotnik called for genuine workers' organizations to replace the officially sponsored trade unions, which the journal called "dead institutions...
Other flourishing samizdat periodicals include Bratniak (Fraternity), a student publication produced in the port city of Gdansk, Postep (Progress), a magazine devoted to the problems of Poland's farmers, and Puls (Pulse), a literary journal from Lodz that was devoted this month to official censorship in the Polish movie industry...
...publications for fear of stirring up even more popular unrest and making martyrs of the underground writers. Polish officials dismiss the dissident writing as insignificant, but they regard its proliferation with dismay. Earlier this month, police confiscated 450 copies of Opinia in the Warsaw apartment of one of the journal's distributors. But that put only a modest dent in the magazine's circulation. About 5,000 copies of every issue are printed, and each copy is believed to have 20 to 30 attentive readers...
...article in the most recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine linked the nation-wide low percentage of black first-year medical students to a low percentage of blacks applying. Both statistics have declined over the last four years, the article said...
...black under-representation in medical school is to be corrected, affirmative action programs should be developed at the pre-college level," Boyd C. Sleeth, and Dr. Robert I. Mishell wrote in the November 24 issue of the journal...