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Provenzano later shooed the newsmen away. "You're embarrassing me in front of everyone in the neighborhood. You guys out on the lawn make me look like a mobster. I'm not. I'm just a truck driver." Provenzano consented, however, to give a photographer a guided tour of his house. A Doberman pinscher snarled behind a door ("He could take your arm off," advised Tony Pro), but the rest of the house was peaceful. There was a big swimming pool out in back, a pool table in one room, and a handcarved teak bust that...
...emergency is lifted "there can be no return to the total license and political permissiveness" of before. That could mean that the ordinarily opinionated Indian press might be permanently muzzled. Last week the government indicated how seriously it regards control of the news when it expelled three foreign newsmen for failing to sign a pledge to observe new censorship guidelines (see THE PRESS...
...simply stopped writing and put away their notebooks. The reporters were obeying a savage gag rule imposed on them last week by the government in a drastic effort to tighten India's month-old press control in time for the special parliamentary session. In effect, the rule forced newsmen to censor themselves...
...pledging to submit to the rule, the newsmen were signing away their freedom, since the new restrictions made it illegal for reporters to quote opposition speakers, refer by name to any political prisoners, including some 30 jailed opposition members of Parliament, publish anything "likely to denigrate the institutions of the Prime Minister or the President," or even mention that published material had been censored. In sum, the press was left free to publish government handouts...
...reduce foreign reporters to the servile status docilely accepted by the journalists who work for the nation's 830 dailies (combined circulation 9,436,000). Indeed, no major paper has shown defiance, including those owned by powerful businessmen who have in the past opposed Indira Gandhi. Only two newsmen, K.R. Malkani, editor of the right-wing Motherland, and Kuldip Nayar, editor of the Indian Express, have been imprisoned. But little change in news coverage has actually occurred because Indian journalists have traditionally depended on government press releases for most of their information. In the past, dissent has only appeared...