Word: restrictionism
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The executive fetish for secrecy has often been satirized, but until recently no steps have been taken to eliminate it. The extent to which documents of interest and importance to the public have been classified beyond the public's reach is still unmeasured. A product of Cold War hysteria, restriction...
Bills recently introduced in the Senate and the House are designed to restore the original spirit of the law. This legislation would require that the various departments list the information which they want kept secret. It would thus eliminate the widespread restriction of data essential to an informed electorate.
The newsman said that because of the restriction "the United States has suffered a lot of embarrassment in the eyes of the world." He said that he did not think Red China would be anxious to "relieve this embarrassment."
In the Poke? For almost the first time during the debate, the Senate chamber began to fill when Georgia's respected Senator Richard Russell rose to speak. Russell had introduced a substitute to the Administration's resolution. It would uphold the President in his right to use U.S...
What to do? Dermatologist MacKenna stoutly holds that each individual case presents its own problems, but he slashes away a lot of old-fashioned injunctions. It is no use, he says, to impose such a strict diet that the victim feels forever hungry and deprived, or to prescribe special face...