Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his every year in office, Menderes has become more autocratic, more sensitive to criticism. Striking out in fury at anyone questioning his policies, he has half smothered both the press and opposition political parties under a blanket of repressive legislation. Today, only seven years after Turkey won its graduation certificate as a democracy by peacefully voting out of office a regime of a quarter of a century's standing, the Turks again live in a society characterized by the over-the-shoulder glance to see who may be listening. Midnight Cable. Good or bad, the shape of Turkey...
...Purge That Failed. In the last six months uneasy Poles have watched Gomulka, their hero of the October 1956 rising, edge back from his "separate road to Socialism" toward closer ties with Moscow. Gomulka has cracked down so hard on the press that he himself was recently heard to complain: "It is nothing but boring trash now." At Moscow last fall he publicly accepted Soviet leadership over all Communist nations. Last fortnight he met Khrushchev secretly at the border-to ask new, large-scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake...
Maclean changed his name to Frazer probably because of his fear of the press; he is reported to have broken completely with Guy Burgess ever since Burgess gave an extended interview in Moscow last October to Tom Driberg, the British newsman and ex-Labor M.P. Both Burgess and Maclean share a continuing problem: alcoholism. Last summer, when Maclean went on an extended drinking bout that ended in delirium tremens, his wife nursed him back to health, but told friends she was fed up and was considering leaving him. Since then, Maclean has been on the wagon, and both...
...order of President Fulgencio Batista, Cuba prepared this week to take a turn toward democracy. The suspensions of constitutional guarantees that have deprived Cubans of freedom of speech, press, assembly and habeas corpus for virtually the entire 14 months of Fidel Castro's rebellion lapse this week, and Batista's Cabinet announced they would not be reimposed. Instead, all Cuba except rebel-ridden Oriente province is to retrieve its freedom, and even Oriente will recover one constitutional right-free assembly...
Tipped off that Venezuela's censors were responsible only for press messages in English and Spanish, Poland-born Reporter Szulc sent cables in Polish to a business address on Fifth Avenue, where a Polish-speaking friend had agreed in advance to translate and relay his files to the Times. He also smuggled out background stories each day with outbound airline passengers...