Word: transradio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduced censorship. Quickly labeled "file now, die later" by the journalists, the system required reporters to deposit signed copies of all their files with the censor for possible use as "judicial evidence." The punishment for "false" reporting, spokesmen said, might be "the opposite of being thrown out." At the Transradio telex office in Santiago, an amiable military officer serving as censor was so anxious to avoid talk about "revolution" that he cut out references to it in a personal message that one correspondent sent to a colleague in Tokyo. When TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath relayed his file via the fragile...