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Chipping & Sniping. Despite the flare-up of resistance-or perhaps because of it-Perón & Co. kept right on with the sniping. In the province of Córdoba, the legislature voted to withdraw all subsidies from Roman Catholic schools. In Buenos Aires, the Peronista newspaper Democracia called for the removal of Roman Catholic "idols" (i.e., religious statues) from schools. Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi signed a decree authorizing non-Catholic religious organizations to provide "material and spiritual help" in hospitals and prisons and charitable institutions-a privilege previously reserved to the Roman Catholic Church. And persistent rumors...
Time for Reminders. To Argentines, the speech was a breath-taking turnabout. Evita Peron's newspaper Democracia rose loyally to the new challenge by delivering a forthright attack on meat: "It will wreck your liver, undermine your health, poison you with proteins and provoke serious digestive disturbances." But the presidential conversion gave the Radical Party weekly Adelante a first-class chance to trounce the regime...
...Democracia...
...great independent newspaper La Prensa, killed by President Perón last spring, is to begin a new existence this month as the mouthpiece of Perón's General Confederation of Labor. The present editor of Evita Perón's demagogic, anti-U.S. Democracia is slated to be editor. He plans to get out his first edition Oct. 18, the morning after the Perónistas' Loyalty Day. Oct. 18 will also be the Sand anniversary of La Prensa's founding...
...Democracia's outburst capped a week of Peronista fulmination against La Prensa and all those, at home & abroad, who had spoken up in behalf of its right to be free and to criticize the regime of Juan and Evita Perón. A special session of Congress met to pass sentence of death on La Prensa by expropriating it, then hesitated and decided instead to condemn the paper to a living death...