Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benjamin Pogrund wonders at this sort of fuss. In Johannesburg, South Africa, at The Rand Daily Mail (where Pogrund works as Associate Editor, third in command), decisions of this type--whether to or how much of a story to run, while trying to avoid a judicial run-in with the government--occur every day, and nobody bats an eyelash...
...Mail we consult our lawyer often six times a day," he says, adding, "Generally we do take his advice, because it's our heads that are on the chopping block...
Given this lack of legal protection, the white Afrikaaner government--the regime that imposes a nation-wide policy of apartheid, the racial segregation of South Africa's four million whites, 18 million blacks and 2.3 million coloureds (people of mixed racial ancestry)--can arbitrarily determine when The Mail has stepped out of bounds, and in some areas can demand a blanket right censor...
...will begin during the week of October 5 unless otherwise noted. Course Registration Fee: Student $10, Non-student $20 (for one or more courses) Ulpan student $25, non-student $40. Payable to Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, 1 Bryant Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. No fees for students on scholarship. Registration by mail is accepted...
...only federal statutes the prosecutors found usable in the case were an anti-racketeering law-originally aimed at organized crime-and the mail fraud law. The result is somewhat tortured-most evidently in a charge that Mandel sent a lie through the mails. The alleged lie was contained in a press-conference transcript that was mailed to a library. The use of statutes against officials has nonetheless been upheld, particularly in New Jersey and in Chicago...