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...Diario firmly believes it has a duty to promote the welfare of Puerto Ricans, and it goes about the job unceasingly. The paper's 50-man, largely Puerto Rican editorial staff spends half its time listening to readers' complaints of mistreatment. A converted city bus owned by the paper roams Puerto Rican neighborhoods soliciting other tales of trouble. Puerto Ricans who are accused of a crime often surrender to the paper simply because they are afraid of going to the police. "Saying you're from El Diario is like flashing a badge," says Editor Sergio Santelices...
...some choice parcels of New York real estate, Chalk devotes a minimum of one full day a week to his paper, and he writes many of its editorials. On the day after the New York power failure last November, it was on Chalk's order that El Diario ran a black front page with the white words...
Chalk is now beginning to get some competition from a second Spanish-language tabloid, El Tiempo, which changed from a weekly to a daily last October. Edited by Stanley Ross, 52, a controversial Latin American hand who put out El Diario from 1955 until 1963 when he broke with Chalk, El Tiempo carries more news about Latin America than El Diario and less about New York. It is aimed at New York's non-Puerto Rican Latin Americans-Cubans, Dominicans, Colombians-who are currently streaming into the city, while the Puerto Rican migration has slowed to a bare trickle...
With such backers as F. Ruben Batista, son of the former Cuban dictator, General Anastasio Somoza Jr., army chief in Nicaragua, Huntington Hartford and Realtor Paul Tishman, El Tiempo takes a more conservative political line than El Diario, which is so ardently Democratic that it would not identify a prominent local Republican when he appeared in a picture...
When Bobby Kennedy ran for Senator in 1964, El Diario plastered pictures of him all over the paper and editorialized: "They say that you own a house in Virginia and that you vote in Massachusetts. But we know better than that. You are a real New Yorker, born in The Bronx." Last month, after Kennedy had made his swing around Latin America, El Tiempo's Juan Casanova said in his gossip column, "Off the Record": "When he arrived in Caracas, at the Hotel Tamanaco, Kennedy took his own liquor to the pool, not buying in the local bars. Thus...