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<text>
<title>
(May 14, 1990) Censored
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT, Page 47
Censored
By Andrei Sakharov
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<p>[From Memoirs. (c) 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Translated by
Richard Lourie]
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<p> [Sakharov began writing for scientific journals around 1947,
but every article had to be free of secret information and,
worse, had to get past GLAVLIT, the state censor.]
</p>
<p> GLAVLIT had an interminable list of subjects forbidden not
only in the interests of secrecy but also out of political
considerations. It was forbidden to publish information about
crimes, alcoholism, health conditions, education, the water
supply, suicides, the supply and production of nonferrous
metals, precise data on the population's nutrition and income,
movie-and theater-attendance figures. Data about measures to
safeguard the environment and information about natural
disasters and accidents could not be published without special
permission. GLAVLIT's imprimatur was also required for all
literary works and for just about everything published in the
country, down to advertisements and the labels on matchboxes.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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