Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent weeks Iraqi Communists have used their virtually unchallenged control of the country's press and radio to push for their next objective: membership in Premier Karim Kassem's Cabinet. Last fortnight mild-spoken General Kassem replied with characteristic obliqueness: "I do not encourage parties and party life at present." The Reds continued to praise Kassem as "our savior leader," kept up their insistent demands for office. But last week the left-wing National Democrats, the only political party with open representation in the Cabinet, and a party that has often worked in the past with the Communists...
That left the Communists as the only major group operating as a political party in Iraq. Embarrassed and unready for any open test, the Communists tried to say that the National Democrats had misinterpreted Kassem's wishes. Thereupon, Kassem called a press conference to say that he still opposed "political party activities during the transitional period." And though he said it with a smile, his meaning was plain: "Any group that works against this I would consider as having committed an act of conspiracy against the government." The Communists reluctantly called off their campaign...
...corruption in his government. So far, by general agreement, General Ne Win has served Burma well. He has kept prices generally stable, has cleared miles of hideous Rangoon slums, and moved 100,000 squatters out of the city. The general has not tampered with the courts or the press. Still, army rule is, by its own declaration, temporary...
...year-old independent weekly newsmagazine Philippines Free Press declared last week that "there is more grafting and thieving in our government today than there ever was in previous administrations, from that of Manuel Quezon to Ramon Magsaysay. Compared to the callous and venal officials we have nowadays, those that infested the [1948-53 Quirino administration] were clumsy amateurs...
...another for two of the most powerful editorial voices in the world-Izvestia (circ. 1,800,000), official organ of the 15 Soviet states, and Pravda (circ. 5,560,000), the mouthpiece of the Communist Party. While Pravda and Izvestia are two of the most widely known of all press names, their behind-the-walls operation is perhaps the least understood...