Zhang's film, about three generations of a family living through the Cultural Revolution, has caused a stir here not least because of the absence of the director, who has stayed in China to protest censorship of his movie.

The radio correspondents for the Russian News Service, the main source of news for radio stations, resigned earlier this month to protest censorship by new owners.

"I didn't really want to put pants on animals, but I was protesting censorship," he said, by "taking it to an absurd extreme."

The lyrics protest censorship, which is a recurring theme in Tool songs.

The expulsion was facilitated, according to Seldes, after his publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick, failed to show sufficient respect when writing to the Soviets to protest censorship.

"Trio A," a dance for nude performers with American flags hanging from their necks, was created to protest repression and censorship.

It was also here that developed his militant political tendencies, to the extent that he was expelled during his final semester after he threw a filing cabinet through a window to protest censorship of a campus publication.

According to Silbergeld, "Zhang had come full circle, censored at an American exhibition protesting censorship in China."

At the news session, Gennadi N. Seleznev of Pravda and his colleagues sounded much like the anti-Communist dissidents Pravda used to excoriate regularly in the old days for protesting Soviet censorship.

The committee protested censorship in the occupied territories in a statement issued on April 12.