Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enforce the new system, the government's Bureau for Information established a Media Operations Center, whose job will be to examine all news copy and film before it can be published or broadcast. Equipped with only six telex machines, the cumbersome censorship operation will make the work of journalists vastly more difficult -- and often impossible. South African papers will be obliged to submit editorials on sensitive subjects to the censors. Though that requirement obviously cannot apply to foreign publications, spokesmen said the government would be taking note of editorial comment about South Africa by foreign publications. Indeed, last week...
...meeting between the two of us. Me and her, like the rubber man and the bearded lady. Wonderful. If he can find her--and I've got my fingers crossed that he can't--I'll play the fool. It'll help out a fellow journalist...
...President has given us several different versions of what happened at the Reykjavik "summit." The President insists that when this country exchanged American journalist Nicholas Daniloff for an alleged Soviet spy, we weren't "swapping...
Boston's Human Rights Commission observed the anniversary on Saturday with a conference on human rights. Speakers included former Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov, Assistant Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs James Montgomery, and Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist whose survival under Pol Pot's regime was documented in the film, "The Killing Fields...
...political prisoners -- 225 oppositionists, including leaders of the Solidarity underground -- between July and September. Hard-line opponents of the regime warned that the amnesty was merely an interlude before the next round of jailings, but others thought that a new era of peaceful coexistence might be beginning. Said Opposition Journalist Stefan Bratkowski: "In comparison to what has been happening until now, this is a major political shift...