The Right to Know: ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 91 pages |
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Page 4 - Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all. in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, artagreed and determined to develop and to increase the means of communication between their peoples and to employ these means for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other's lives...
Page 4 - Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Page 4 - ... to develop and to increase the means of communication between their peoples and to employ these mea.ns for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other's lives...
Page 4 - Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, recognizes the fundamental principle that "everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Page 78 - However, from a Marxist point of view, the norms of law, including the norms of mutual relations of the socialist countries, cannot be interpreted narrowly, formally, and in isolation from the general context of class struggle in the modern world.
Page 9 - ... of hardship today— and tomorrow, you'll see, it will all be all right. (But it will never be all right! The price of cowardice will only be evil; we shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.) And on top of this we are threatened by destruction in the fact that the physically compressed, strained world is not allowed to blend spiritually; the molecules of knowledge and sympathy are not allowed to jump over from one half to the other. This presents a rampant danger:...
Page 80 - illegal actions" of the allied socialist countries in Czechoslovakia forget that in a class society there is not and there cannot be nonclass laws.
Page 25 - Soviet ideology still proclaims hostility to some of America's most basic values. The Soviet leaders remain committed to that ideology. Like the nation they lead, they are and they will continue to be totally dedicated competitors of the United States of America.
Page viii - Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are unique in the entire spectrum of international broadcasting. They differ substantially from the official broadcasts of the United States and Western European nations. They operate essentially as a free press does in the United States. They too bring world news and interpretation into the Soviet sphere, but they devote a substantial portion of their broadcasts to news and essential background information about internal developments in and among the communist...
Page 78 - self-determination," as a result of which NATO troops would have been able to come up to the Soviet borders, while the community of European socialist countries would have been rent, would have encroached, in actual fact, upon the vital interests of the peoples of these countries and would be in fundamental conflict with the right of these peoples to socialist self-determination.