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University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 23, 1961
Russian Censor Bans Lifted
MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Soviet Union today announced the abolition of censorship of foreign correspondents.
Press Chief M. A. Kharlamov announced that from now on foreign correspondents would be free to send dispatches by cable or telephone from any point at their convenience.
He added, however, that correspondents will be required to keep copies of their stories for examination at any time by the Soviet press department.
Kharlamov said whether to install teleprinter machinery in correspondent's offices was another question and would be considered in due time.
He said consideration also would be given to letting correspondents send film out of the country unhampered.
At no time during the press conference did Kharlamov use the word "censorship."
he sidestepped all questions as
how he the censorship had operated,
how many people had been involved
in it and so forth.
This dispatch, telephoned from the UPI's Moscow bureau to Helsinki, Finland, was the first to move unencored out of Moscow under the new rules.
Dispatches now can be telephoned from anywhere instead of only from the central telegraph office where the censors sat.
The abolition of censorship ended some of the most severe restrictions in the world on freedom of communications. Censorship has been in effect almost continuously since 1947.
There were no indications that Soviet authorities are planning other measures to ease the work of foreign correspondents and expedite the flow of news.
The history of Russian censorship goes back to 1720. It originally was enforced under the Czarist regime. When the Bolsheviks seized power they introduced their own form of censorship.
According to the Soviet encyclopedia it was designed to "safeguard military and state secrets in the press and also to prevent publication of material which can harm the interests of workers."
Enforcement has not been uniform. It varied from extreme rigidity during wartime and during the last few years of the Stalin era to a fair degree of liberalism in recent years.
Censorship was suspended from May to September in 1939 and again for a few weeks at the end of World War II. There is no guarantee that the new reform will last indefinitely.
Correspondents still will be held accountable for stories after they are sent out, as they are in Poland and Yugoslavia. Moreover, the sysendts would continue to be held responsible for anything they wrote.
He made it clear that correspond- tem of entralized control of news sources will continue in force.
Foreigners still are highly restricted in their movements about the country and cannot go beyond 25 miles from Moscow without official approval.
With some exceptions, communication with Soviet institutions can be arranged only through official channels.
CRC to Support UP Civil Rights Platform
The Civil Rights Council last night endorsed the civil rights plank of the University Party.
Stephen S. Baratz, Lawrence graduate student who is chairman of the CRC, said after the meeting that the civil rights plank in the UP platform is "more realistic than the civil rights position of Vox."
"THE PARTY asks for the 'recognition and aberrance of discrimination in any form' and urges 'every student to take an interest in discrimination' and to use 'all legal methods of peaceful resistance against it.'"
"That is what we, as a Council, stand for," Baratz said.
by 'many methods.'" Baratz said.
"Although the Vox Populi platform states that 'segregation violates basic human freedoms,' its 'however, we disagree with many of the methods now being used to obtain these freedoms' clause is an ambiguous statement we do not understand.
by many methods," Baratz said. About 40 persons attended the meeting last night.-Baratz said this is the largest number ever to attend a CRC meeting.
"WE DON'T know what they mean
The announcement reflected Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's trend toward liberalization and the growing confidence of the Soviet Union that it can stand closer foreign inspection. Censorship has not been foolproof and has subjected Russia to criticism from abroad.
"We're going to have to move to a larger room," he added.
Kharlamov told the correspondents he thought the new rules might put some of them "in a difficult position."
Last night's meeting was closed to the Kansan.
"Thus far our people at the telegraph (censors) have helped to correct incorrect rumors," he said. "The whole responsibility for incorrect rumors will lie on the correspondents themselves now."
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He will arrive Monday for a three day visit to the campus. During his stay he will speak to classes in sociology, journalism, history, advertising and art history.
STUDENTS AND faculty are invited to attend a matinee coffee at 4 p.m. Monday in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union for Mr. Lynes' discussion of "The Pressures of Leisure and the Role of the Dilettante."
Wednesday noon he will speak to the Faculty Forum on the topic "Skeletons in the Publisher's Closet."
Movie to Depict Da Vinci's Life
Russell Lynes, managing editor of Harper's Magazine, and author of "The Tastemakers," will speak on "Sense and Nonsense About Mass Culture" at the next Humanities Forum at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser Theater.
Lynes to Present Humanities Talk
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A movie in the "Films on Art" series entitled "Leonardo da Vinci: Man of Mystery," will be shown at 7:30 and 9 p.m. today in the lecture hall of the Museum of Art. It will be a full length feature in color on the life of Da Vinci.
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A petition calling for passage of the "Cold War G. I. Bill" now before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is in the Veterans Service office in Strong Hall.
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WALTER FREDERICKS, Tenor
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The proposal, the Veterans' Adjustment Bill, was introduced by Sen. Ralph Yarbourgh, D-Tex., on Jan 11, 1961. It would extend the G. I. bill benefits enacted during World War II and the Korean conflict to veterans who served in the armed forces after 1955.
"The bill should be considered as one of the suggestions to offer assistance to young men wanting a college education," E. R. Elbel, professor of physical education and director of KU's Veterans Service said. "We continually receive requests for assistance from veterans who served after 1955."
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