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...Hailed by Stern as "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period," the diaries were offered to other publications for serialization at up to $3 million. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the parent company of London's Sunday Times, agreed to pay $400,000 for British and Commonwealth rights. Paris Match and Italy's Panorama, both weeklies, signed on at undisclosed prices. Newsweek, which declined to buy serialization rights after extensive negotiations, devoted a cover story to the diaries and their contents and trumpeted it in a series of national...
...first Koch seemed to have a group of estimable allies: the London Sunday Times, whose parent News Corporation bought (for an estimated $400,000) publication rights to the diaries within much of the British Commonwealth; eminent historians including Hugh Trevor-Roper, a Hitler scholar and Times director, who said he was "satisfied that the documents are authentic"; and Newsweek, which voiced some skepticism but took the find seriously enough to report it in a 13-page cover story...
...State Rep. Peter C. Vellucci (D-Cambridge) said he isn't so sure that the broadcasts will improve debate on the floor. "It may just put the whole Commonwealth to sleep," he added. Still, Vellucci supported the move, saying it would keep the public better informed...
...added that the main interests of the U.S. in the Caribbean island were geopolitical and economic. Because Puerto Rico is not a state corporations operating in the commonwealth pay no federal taxes, and take billions of dollar...
Cartos Romero-Barrel Governor on Puerto Rica, said the agreed with many of Herrion's points, but added that the way to light for equity is to demand the full rights of statehood. And Ruffle Human in Colon, governor of the commonwealth from 1973 to called for economic last moment under the aegis of commonwealth hood...