Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep things as private as possible, both the wedding and the tea-dance reception in the Grand Ballroom of The Plaza will be closed to the press. At The Plaza, Bill Harrington's orchestra will tootle Edelweiss, The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha, The Blue Danube and, at David's request, some rock 'n' roll in arrangements gentled for guests over...
Poor Vladimir. As usual, the press is in the forefront of defiance. The Reporter, banned for a month, welcomed itself back into print with a cover story on the student sit-in, two cartoons satirizing censorship, and an editorial promising to "demand justice" in the event of "any further interference with freedom of expression." Even under the system of self-censorship imposed on publications by the Soviets, it is surprising that so much irreverence got through. But the Reporter employed a rather special system for choosing its own censor, whose name happens to be Vladimir. As a fellow staffer explained...
...Cabinet was sworn in by President Giuseppe Saragat at the Palazzo Quirinale last week, Rumor continued work on the policy statement that he will present to the Parliament. He will almost certainly reaffirm Italy's commitment to NATO, call for reform of university and school laws and press for increases in worker pensions. Rumor's skill in allotting posts across the coalition's entire range assures him of support from about 360 of the chamber's 630 deputies. All his agility as a compromiser may prove useless, however, unless he can quickly produce the social reforms...
...buttress that contention, the chief government spokesman emphasized at a press conference that all government power is now being exercised solely through the Cabinetland Premier, as prescribed in the new constitution that was overwhelmingly ratified last September. Papadopoulos appointed a commission of jurists and civil servants to draw up the 25 or so laws that are needed to implement the precepts of the constitution. In a nationwide radio address, Papadopoulos promised to ease the country's rigid revolutionary rule and to introduce extensive social re forms. The thrust of his actions in dicated that the initial military phase...
...Klaus Schütz called the decision "outrageous." Robert Kempner, a former U.S. deputy chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press of Axel Springer found themselves in agreement. Both condemned the judgment as outrageously lenient...