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COLOMBIA Censorship as Usual One of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's proudest acts, soon after he came to power two years ago, was to relax the strict press controls administered by his unpopular predecessor, dictatorial President Laureano Gomez. On one occasion, in the presence of a band of visiting foreign newsmen, Rojas Pinilla turned to the government's chief censor with a grin and forthwith abolished all censorship of outgoing news cables. But last week, no longer so proud, no longer so sure of himself, President Rojas cracked down on the press again...
...airstrip, he jumped down from the plane, too impatient to wait until the ramp was shoved into place. In his first week, he fired nine of the protectorate's top French officials, "for essentially psychological reasons"; they were competent, he explained, but identified with the old, unpopular order. To Moroccan cheers, he declared a general amnesty for Bastille Day, freeing 77 political prisoners and closing the internment camp where Moroccan nationalists had been held. This, he said, was only a beginning. "Spirits must be calmed in order to institute a constructive policy," he explained, and urged Moroccans to join...
...money" to get an unfurnished apartment. "It could be worse," she says philosophically, "but it's bad enough. I can't give a party. I can't invite someone in for a drink. If I come home early, my mother worries that I'm unpopular. If I stay out late, she gets concerned about my morals. I'm head and shoulders above most people my age, and I don't enjoy simple independence...
...Class of 1957 were admitted to the House of their first choice, while 90 percent went to one of their top three choices. This method, however, worked well only for the two or three most popular Houses, and brought about a distribution criticized as inequitable by residents in unpopular Houses...
Both publishers were without fear of being out of step with their readers or unpopular in the pursuit of their convictions. They tried to lead, even at moments when they had few followers behind them. From their convictions and their determination to tell the truth, rather than their power of the moment, they drew their journalistic strength. Such devotion to independent newspapering- when they were right and when they were wrong-immeasurably enriched not only U.S. journalism but the pursuit of the news and truth everywhere...