Word: gainza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interview at the former dictator's modest suite in the U.S.-owned Hotel Washington in Colón, Panama. The marked men: Argentine navy and air force officers; such big industrialists as the Bembergs (beer) and Raúl Lamuraglia (textiles); La Prensa Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz and that paper's longtime news service, the United Press; the rulers of Uruguay, where Perón's exiles plotted; and the Roman Catholic clergy...
...building and hacked it into pieces. Symbolically, the statue was a woman representing truth, with a torch in one hand and La Prensa in the other. Last week the arm bearing the torch was unveiled in the building at a triumphant ceremony restoring the plant to Editor-Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz. "We return to our house," he told almost 2,000 loyal ex-staffers and friends...
...like the newspaper in the statue's left hand, La Prensa itself was still missing. Soon after Gainza Paz ended almost five years of exile (TIME, Dec. 12), the paper stopped publishing until the Argentine government could complete the technicalities of restoring it to Gainza Paz. After last week's ceremony, the publisher began going to his old office daily to reassemble his staff and tackle production problems. He planned to devote Page One to news instead of the traditional London Times-like classified ads, considered making body type larger and writing more concise. But before he could...
...friends and notables, even left-wing political adversaries. They were there to greet the man who had become one of the symbols of Perón's persecution since he had been arrested in 1951, escaped, and fled abroad. The crowd broke into cheers and tears as Gainza Paz and his wife stepped off the plane from New York. "It is with indescribable emotion that I return to my liberated country," said Gainza Paz in a choked voice. As his well-wishers nearly knocked him down, a squad of police linked arms with some of the welcomers...
...During Gainza Paz's exile, the once-great newspaper founded by his grandfather in 1869 had shrunk from 40 pages to eight, from a circulation of 380,000 to 250,000, from a proud independent paper to a sordid Peronista puff sheet. Since the paper's seizure, loyal staffers had turned to such odd jobs as driving trucks, selling wine, refrigerators and auto parts. Fifteen had spent six months to two years in Perón's jails on charges of plotting revolutions. Many second-and third-generation Prensa employees would meet daily on streetcorners...