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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coverage that press and television gave to the demonstrations. Obviously, some reporters and commentators grew highly emotional. But too many impartial Chicagoans and visitors, and too many editors, correspondents and writers, witnessed the confrontations to accept Daley's version. What they saw was a collapse of professional discipline within the police ranks...
...silence did not last. The top of the Soviet hierarchy erupted into controversy over Khrushchev's plan to publish the book, but at his direct authorization the novel appeared in the November issue of Novy Mir. The 95,000-copy press run sold out within days, as did the 100,000 copies in book form that quickly followed; by now, millions of Russians have read it, although it is no longer in bookstores and is gradually disappearing from library shelves...
...forces of repression counterattacked. The then head of the KGB Vladimir Semichastny told a meeting of the Central Committee: "If you will permit me to arrest 1,000 to 1,200 of the most active 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...
...Within the past year countless other heads of U.S. colleges and universities have also quit, well before retirement age. They include U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, 52, Indiana's Elvis J. Stahr, 52, Swarthmore's Courtney Smith, 51, Kentucky's John W. Oswald, 50, San Francisco State's John Summerskill, 43, and Hawaii's Thomas Hamilton...
...sharply rebuked the National Broadcasting Company for not informing viewers that Chet Huntley had substantial cattle interests when he went on the air to criticize tough new federal rules on meat inspection. In another peremptory communication, the commission asked the three major networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-to respond within 20 days to "hundreds of complaints" of "bias" in their coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...