Word: clarin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, for the first time, the government took official note of the rumors. A presidential palace representative quietly asked the morning newspaper Clarin to publish a story reporting that "in the U.S. also there exists a mania for attributing bad health to [President] Eisenhower." The story pointed out that in both the U.S. and Great Britain there are constant rumors that Eisenhower and Churchill are sick, but these should be dismissed as the inventions of political enemies...
...proprietors of Buenos Aires' staunchly independent newspapers La Prensa and La Nation into court on libel charges. Other papers were also punished for opposition to his regime. Salta's outspoken El In-transigente found its newsprint supply cut off and so did Buenos Aires' tabloid Clarin. In Cordoba, inspectors found the printing plant of the firmly anti-Peronista Jesuit daily Los Principios "insanitary," and peremptorily padlocked it. This week Los Principios and Clarin had been allowed to resume publication, but a congressional committee closed the Communist daily La Hora, charging it with "anti-Argentine activities...