Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State for Women's Affairs was abolished to appease the mullahs, who claimed that liberalization policies in women's rights were undermining the sanctity of the Islamic household. Half a dozen religious leaders who had been jailed for leading or inspiring rioting were released, and press censorship was lifted for the first time in 15 years...
...prevent a "counterrevolution." Translation: Czechoslovakia was showing signs of growing democratization. So ended, tragically, the eight-month-long Prague Spring, an unprecedented and exhilarating period of cultural and political freedom that had been orchestrated by the Czechoslovak Communist Party of Alexander Dubček. Under Dubček, censorship had been lifted, police files aired and Communist Party officials-for the first time ever-subjected to open, popular criticism. Then, thanks to the Kremlin, the country was yanked back into the grim, gray twilight of East bloc conformity it had known since...
...Post staffers on news reporting. Their grades are partly based on the quality and number of stories they get published back home. Says Director Elaine Littell: "This program challenges the would-be journalist with almost every problem he is likely to encounter-language barriers, a volatile political system, some censorship, uneasy and unfriendly borders...
...Chungking I was denounced by some officials for avoiding censorship...
...prized literature and the arts and kept high standards of literacy and education. In private, students angrily equate Zionism with Nazism. They note that books referring to Palestinian culture or nationalism are censored, and that residents of the occupied territories are hindered from receiving publications from Arab countries. Literary censorship, however, is quixotically enforced, and examples of a powerful new Palestinian literature-plays, novels but most notably verse, circulate freely in the West Bank. Inevitably, the themes of the writings reflect a yearning for freedom by artists living under an alien oppression...