Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will continue to ban some fiction, especially the overly sexy kind. "We are not a circulation library," says Deputy Director Henry Loomis. "We are in the business of supplying books which portray America in a fair and balanced way. Anyone who objects to this is probably in the wrong line of work...
Just what is the USIA's line of work? It is frankly an American propaganda agency, and accentuating the positive is its legitimate goal. The question is how much of the positive can be poured on without undermining the agency's own credibility. The Voice of America has always been most effective when it offered straight news, including U.S. criticism of the U.S. As Edward R. Murrow, most distinguished of USIA directors, once said: "You must tell the bad with the good. We cannot be effective in telling the American story abroad if we tell it only...
Amalric's entire argument is in line with the very Russian attitude that the best man is the one who stands and fights -or suffers. Two of his books, both critical of Soviet policy-Involuntary Journey to Siberia and Can the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-will be published in the West next year, but without the approval of official Soviet organizations. As a result, Amalric has been denied his hard-currency royalties. That, in turn, prompted him last week to send a second open letter to six Western newspapers: "Stalin would have executed me for the fact that...
...variously reported on an extended vacation in Slovakia or undergoing treatment in a Prague sanatorium. Josef Smrkovsky, the onetime darling of Czechoslovak liberals, is on an enforced vacation in Bohemia. Hundreds of other officials, journalists and even schoolteachers have lost their jobs. But under the hard-line regime of Party Boss Gustav Husàk, who replaced Dubček seven months ago, the purges...
...fired for harboring liberal tendencies. To undercut the bargaining position of Czechoslovakia's nine unions of artists, writers and other creative people, Minister of Culture Miroslav Bružek has declared that he will deal with members strictly on an individual basis. Only those who obey the party line will be given financial aid and permission to travel abroad...