Word: obstructions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more objectionable than censorship on moral grounds are the various attempts to ban or obstruct films on the basis of the political beliefs or activities of the artists involved. Chief among these transgressions is the American Legion's picketing of Charlie Chaplin's films, or even of Born Yesterday because Judy Holliday once signed a front organization's petition...
...Nasser, who had counted on the blocked canal as Egypt's best lever for getting the world to pry Israel out of Sinai and Gaza. The Israelis, who have so far given up barely half of Sinai, are demanding U.N. guarantees that Egypt will neither reoccupy Gaza nor obstruct passage for Israeli ships through the Gulf of Aqaba...
...insisted that the United States should support an early resumption of negotiations on canal ownership, an unquestioned right of Israeli and all other ships to use the canal without any discrimination. He also urged that Nasser should not be permitted to obstruct canal clearance to gain political advantage...
...Persian messengers travel with a velocity which nothing human can equal. . . . Neither snow, nor rain, nor heart, nor darkness are permitted to obstruct their speed."--Herodotus, Book Seven...
...last week arrested Finger Man Miranti and Contractor Carlino, charged them with conspiring to obstruct justice by trying to prevent Columnist Riesel's appearance before a Federal Grand Jury investigating labor rackets. Agents also locked up three material witnesses who knew enough to be "hot" too. To Columnist Riesel, Telvi and his confederates were "complete and absolute strangers." But he was sure that their trail would lead to labor racketeers. "They picked on me," he told reporters, "because they wanted to silence the papers...