Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout all this, Solzhenitsyn tried to get his works published in Russia. When, after a long battle, permission was refused to print Cancer Ward, he stormed furiously out of the Novy Mir office. A clerk who had helped him wrap up the huge manuscript reported his movements to the secret police, who later seized the book at the house of a friend to whom Solzhenitsyn had given it for safekeeping...
...members of the intelligentsia, I will guarantee absolute tranquillity within the country." He was given at least a partial mandate. A few months later, his men quietly rounded up some 150 to 300 intellectuals in Leningrad. A new, sinister note crept into the charges: "Conspiracy to armed rebellion." The secret police claimed to have smashed an underground terrorist network, extending to arrests of related groups in Sverdlovsk and several towns in the Ukraine...
...Oliveira Salazar has been the unusual dictator of an unfortunate land. An austere, almost monastic man who once taught economics, he has shunned publicity and raised few monuments to himself. Yet he built a tightly run, corporate state modeled closely on Mussolini's Italy, and his secret police have harshly repressed most discussion and all dissent. He has ruled longer than any other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood clot on his brain. Last week...
More dismal still, civil liberties are nearly unknown in Portugal. Press censorship has been in force almost continually since 1926. The secret police, P.I.D.E., have banned books by such seemingly noncontroversial writers as Will Durant and Paul Claudel. Political opponents of the regime are regularly put into preventive detention for up to six months. The P.I.D.E. jailed Mario Scares, a lawyer and leading critic of the Salazar regime, a total of 13 times before exiling him without trial last March to the tiny island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea. The number of legal emigrants and clandestinos voting...
...Cousins promised that the article in the November McCall's would contain never published information on "the thinking and feelings at that time of the President and Attorney General, the estimates and reports of the CIA." In addition, it would tell of Security Council deliberations and "the significant secret meetings between the Attorney General and Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin." Other editors who had seen the manuscript emphasized other virtues. "The thing that comes across," said one, "is the terribly close relationship between the two Kennedy brothers. It's not as great for what it tells...