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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the editors of the Mesa Tribune in suburban Phoenix jumped into print early with copies of this week's Doonesbury cartoon strip, they knew they would be making news. The object of Artist Garry Trudeau's satire is Evan Mecham, Arizona's outspoken Republican Governor. The strips lampoon controversial remarks Mecham has made since taking office in January, including his description of recall-movement leaders as a "band of homosexuals and a few dissident Democrats." Mecham is not amused: he complained that the Doonesbury series "crossed the point of decency" and advised his lawyers to explore a possible libel...
...policy of glasnost, though, is breeding confusion among editors, who now must decide themselves what to print. In July, Gorbachev warned Soviet journalists that openness and democracy "do not mean permissiveness." He seemed to be defining glasnost's limits when he told them that any attempt to advocate economic and cultural reforms "beyond socialism" will be censured. In fact, editors know that many subjects remain strictly taboo, such as the private lives of top party officials or criticism of Soviet arms-control proposals...
...Sovietskaya Kultura (Soviet Culture) for their liberal leanings. The two journals shot back with equally harsh words for Molodaya Gvardiya's out-of-date views. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, intervened with a commentary calling the articles "rude" and a warning that scores should not be settled in print...
...there they are. Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, with the daunting subtitle How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, has 250,000 copies in print and tops the New York Times nonfiction list, where it has been for 15 straight weeks. It is also No. 1 in Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy ranks No. 3 after ten weeks on the Times list, with 155,000 books issued...
...from encouraging the free discussion of public issues, the FCC argued, Government regulation had a "chilling" effect on TV. Said FCC Chairman Dennis R. Patrick: "We seek to extend to the electronic press the same First Amendment guarantees that the print media have enjoyed since our country's inception." Or as Meredith's attorney, Floyd Abrams, put it: "This is the beginning of the end of government control over the content of what appears on television...