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Business Is Business. In Mons, Belgium, arrested for selling his wife Anna, his three children, his household furnishings and his house to Jiacomo Martina for 24,000 francs ($480), Emilio Rondoti was freed by the local judge, but ordered to pay court costs...
...Cuba, which has more television sets than any country but the U.S. and Great Britain, citizens like to sit down of a Sunday evening and watch a rousing political harangue. This week they got it from Emilio Ochoa, president of the Orthodox Party, which bitterly opposes Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. Ochoa demanded that 500,000 Orthodox youths march on Batista's headquarters at Columbia military camp near Havana "to see if the soldiers will fire." Shortly after Ochoa's face faded from screens all over Cuba, Military Intelligence agents closed in on him and made history...
...Peronistas, led by Deputy José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher and boss of the Anti-Argentine Activities Committee which closed dozens of opposition papers last year, could not silence the opposition utterly. Boldly facing the booing government benches, Radical Deputy Arturo Frondizi cried: "Yes, you are full of power-but also full of fear ... If there is any campaign against Argentina outside the country, it is because the regime has liquidated all freedom inside the country...
...used the newsprint rationing to take paper from La Prensa and give it to his friends. He also exercises a censorship on outgoing cables, has delayed stories and even arrested U.S. newsmen. Fortnight ago, responding to U.S. criticism, Perón kicked out his press purger, José Emilio Visca (TIME, June 12) ; but it was too soon to say whether that represented a change of policy or just a change of faces...
Last week the President's order was executed. The Peronista press no longer reported the doings of Deputy José Emilio Visca, for six months the butcher-boy terror of the Argentine press (TIME, Jan. 16, Feb. 6, Feb. 27). In a new list of members of the congressional committee to investigate anti-Argentine activities, the press-purging committee over which Visca had presided, his name did not appear...