Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to endlessly call the demonstrators "Communists" and endlessly to denounce "police brutality." The crucial question about the riots, now three weeks past, is no longer merely who did what, with what, to whom. More important is why the melee occurred, and what it meant. So far, the press has failed sufficiently to plumb those questions...
...mean, and what will it bring? Will it inspire advocates of the New Politics-young, rebellious and impatient for change-to greater battles and more broken heads? Will it solidify the silent masses of settled, older Americans into rigid and angry resistance? Mayor Daley's mail count, despite press objections to his tactics, is running 20 to 1 in his favor...
...Russians invade Czechoslovakia? If the Moscow newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya is to be believed, it was mostly because they could no longer abide the freedom that Alexander Dubček had granted the Czech press. "The reintroduction of bourgeois press freedom led to the most destructive consequences," declared the Moscow paper in an editorial explaining the invasion. While it lasted, moreover, it was a freedom exercised furiously, with a passion pent up by two decades of enforced Communist conformity. And, despite the Russian tanks, it is not yet completely dead...
Freedom of the press was restored to Czechoslovakia in March, when the Communist Party's Central Committee stripped the country's euphemistically named Central Publication Authority of its censorship powers and fired its boss. The transformation was immediate and spectacular...
Determined, as Reportér Magazine Editor Stanislav Budin described it, to "wed freedom and Communism," the press probed into every part of Czech life. It examined housing problems, urged a return to limited free enterprise, promoted the democratic reforms sought by Dubček and his liberals...