Thursday, November 14, 1969
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Journalists ordered to submit to Soviets
PRAGUE (UPI)—Journalists throughout Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia were ordered yesterday to submit to absolute Communist Party control in an intensifying crackdown on the press.
The demand, the harshest yet in a long and largely unsuccessful campaign to censor the press, came on the eve of a crucial meeting of the party's Central Committee.
Stalinist conservatives were expected to push for more power in a conference-table showdown
Author of 6 books to lecture at KU
The Rev. Walter J. Ong, a Jesuit priest and professor of English at St. Louis University, will lecture on "The End of the Age of Literacy," at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Immediately after the lecture, which is free and open to the public, an informal reception will be held.
Father Ong will spend three days on the KU campus speaking to French and English literature, contemporary religious thought, American studies and dramatic literature classes.
Father Ong is the author of six books. The latest, "Knowledge and the Future of Man," was published this year. His writings have dealt with Renaissance literature and the history of ideas.
Father Ong has been on the St. Louis University English faculty since 1941. He has also taught at Regis College, the University of California and in Tours, France.
He is now a member of the advisory board of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has held several national offices in research and advanced-study associations.
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with the liberals of party leader Alexander Dubeck.
News of the government's attempt to harness the press was accompanied by reports of more editors being fired from newspapers and journals critical of the post invasion regime.
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the press crackdown was approved by the party's ruling presidium late Tuesday, sources revealed yesterday.
Meanwhile medical sources reported the dismissal of doctors for their political views.
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Evzen Erban, chairman of the all-party National Front and a presidium member, accused some member of the media of falling victim to "Western propaganda" and said this was revealed by their "writing between the lines."
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Until now the news media had been the only area of Czechoslovak public life operating much as it had before the Warsaw Pact invasion last August.
He said the Foreign Ministry would "consider the great number of foreign correspondents" in the country and evaluate their dispatches.
There had been numerous appeals from the party to editors and bradcasters to censor themselves, but most of these appeals and decrees had little effect.
Appeals from party
Some Czechoslovak journalists faced with the choice of conformity or removal have said they would quit and become factory workers rather than bow to the old restrictions.
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Lady Bird to take final tour
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson will make her final cross-country trip as First Lady next week. The four-day tour beginning Nov. 22 will emphasize advances in education, art, space, health and urban renewal-programs promoted by President Johnson.
in Washington with an oath-taking ceremony for new American citizens. Then she will fly to New Orleans with members of the National Council on the Arts to attend the opening of a repertory theater that was partially financed by the council.
The 6,000-mile tour will begin
At Cape Kennedy, Mrs. Johnson will be briefed on the Apollo flight to orbit the moon, expected about Christmas. She will tour the spaceport and meet the astronauts.
It will be her sixth major tour as First Lady. In the past five years, she has traveled more than 100,000 miles, visiting about 125 cities.
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