Word: publishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apple of her father's eye, Svetlana applied in the early 1960s to marry Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist living in Moscow. She was refused permission, an act that she found "disgustful." Trained as a writer and English translator, Svetlana was also aware that she could never publish her autobiography-a Life-With-Father memoir that the Kremlin would not allow to be printed. When Singh fell seriously ill last year with a respiratory ailment, he and Svetlana were not allowed to return to his Indian home village of Kalakankar...
What strikes you first is the lack of activity. The Summer News, a twice-weekly newspaper which the university pays the CRIMSON to publish, is filled with reviews, speech stories, features on the Newport Folk Festival, articles about Congressional hearings the draft, the peace campaigns, the Lampoon's janitor being beaten up. But it all seems distant, out of reach and somehow totally irrelevant to a life which centers around the green of the Yard and the grass of the River, to a university which serves lemonade on the lawn every Wednesday afternoon and maintains a "social and information" center...
...reopen banks, stock exchanges and factories so that the country's economic life would not be harmed. Still, Greece had by no means returned to normal. Though many conservative politicians were released from custody, hundreds of others remained behind the walls of army compounds. Newspapers were not allowed to publish; the only radio allowed to operate in all of Greece was the armed forces' station. Martial law was still in effect, and soldiers continued to patrol the streets...
...most interesting questions that the book poses is whether or not the old publish-and-be-damned motto is compatible with modern journalism. Reston aptly describes the plight of a reporter who is faced with the decision of whether or not to print information which might be used as propaganda in the cold war, or which might prove diplomatically embarrassing to our government. The question is best presented through example; first, should reporters have exposed the Bay of Pigs adventure; second should reporters have published Kennedy's plan to intercept Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba. Presumably in the first...
...Reston writes hat while reporters can no longer publish whatever they can get their hands on (military secrets and stategic plans), they should not be pushed into publishing just what the government finds convenient...