Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space ship, Dick Tracy was just about to let his enemy Intro have it with a laser ray gun. "This is not a no-win game like the sadists play," Tracy shouted at Intro, below him aboard an old-fashioned yacht. "We're out to vaporize you." The strip, carried in 800 newspapers, then concluded with a panel showing a spindly hand, labeled "under world," being bashed by a gold bar. Said the caption: "Violence is golden, when it's used to put down evil...
...editors reacted as strongly as readers. As soon as he got a glimpse of the offending Tracyism, Donald Brazier, assistant managing editor of the Seattle Times, had it chipped from the printing plate. The Los Angeles Times ran a sampling of some 100 letters it had received criticizing the strip, then added that it "joins in condemning any endorsement of the spirit of violence and any extra-legal act of violence...
...Greensboro (N.C.) News was angry enough to drop the strip for good, along with another strip where evildoers are casually obliterated without benefit of trial, Little Orphan Annie. Explained the paper on Page One: "We have been quick to criticize other communications media for exploiting and even glorifying violence. However, we have our own weaknesses in this field, and it is only right that we take the necessary steps to bring our practices into line with our editorial policy...
Arab Exodus. For the first time in 20 years, the Gazans are allowed to travel outside the Strip. With Israeli encouragement, more than 30,000 of them have gone to seek jobs in Jordan or the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Arabs charge that the Israelis are allowing them to leave for political rather than humane motives, since every departing Arab is one potential terrorist fewer to deal with and one mouth fewer to feed. But the rate of the Arab exodus by bus and hired taxi has dropped off lately as word has spread that few jobs are available...
...Cairo-oriented Gaza Arabs. The natural hostility of the conquered is heightened by the fact that the Israelis react harshly to terrorist incidents. They dynamite scores of Arab homes, detain hundreds of suspects, impose long and frequent curfews, and at times even stop food distribution. Last week the Gaza Strip was the scene of the first major eruption of pent-up Arab resentment over Israeli occupation in the year since...