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...coating on Moscow's agreement last December to supply Ethiopia with $100 million in arms. Moscow had good reason to show such benign feelings: Mengistu last month expelled all American military advisers, communications experts and information officials on the ground that the U.S. had helped the late Emperor "suppress the liberation struggle of the oppressed masses" (TIME...
...free flow of truthful commercial information," wrote Thurgood Marshall, the court's only black Justice. While the ordinance was aimed at "the vital goal" of "promoting stable, racially integrated housing," the court ruled, the censoring of such basic information would enable "every locality in the country [to] suppress any facts that reflect poorly on the locality...
Last week Mengistu achieved realignment in a single stroke. Declaring that U.S. aid had only helped Selassie to "suppress the liberation struggle of the oppressed masses," the junta expelled all American military advisers, communications experts and information officials. By midweek some 300 Americans had departed within the four-day deadline set by the government. At the same time, the government expelled resident correspondents from the Washington Post, Reuters and Agence France-Presse for "distorting" their reports. All that was left of a U.S. presence that once had numbered some 4,000 advisers, diplomats, technicians and family members were 76 staffers...
...like gold and copper. Only 42% believe he should criticize foreign leaders-like Uganda Dictator Idi Amin-if this threatens the safety of Americans living under their rule. On the other hand, just 29% of those polled support Carter's decision to continue foreign aid to countries that suppress human rights but are essential to U.S. national defense. Half of the people surveyed would cut off aid to South Korea...
...newspapermen, however, have suggested such a delay, for they believe a blackout would generate wild rumors. So would legal censorship, which both newsmen and experts on violence argue is the worst possible solution. "Had the media tried to suppress the story of the hostages in Washington," argues Elie Abel, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, "the danger to the public could have been greater. There was evidence of trouble, and if nothing had appeared in the news, panic would have developed." Says Richard Simon, formerly of the Los Angeles police: "If the truth is not good...