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Czechoslovak Ban Again (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PRAGUE, Aug. 27. The Czechoslovak Government Censor’s Office had banned the distribution of Western newspapers in Prague since last Thursday, the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion, official sources said yesterday. The sources told Reuters that only a few Government offices were now receiving the Western press. Prague’s big international hotels which started selling British, American, French and West German newspapers at their lobby news stands last year during the relaxation on press censorship have not received copies for several days. Embassies receiving newspapers through the mail and not through the local distribution office failed to get some of last Thursday’s British newspapers when the demonstrations in Czechoslovakia made front-page news. The sources said that application had to be made to a department of the Ministry of the Interior for any exception to be made to the banning I order.
There was no indication how long the order would remain in effect
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32078, 28 August 1969, Page 17
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