Word: gainza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Alberto Gainza Paz, 78, editor and publisher of Argentina's great 108-year-old La Prensa, who became an international symbol of a free press by defying Dictator Juan Perón; of cancer; in Buenos Aires. Forced into exile when Perón took over his paper in 1951, Gainza Paz resumed control in 1956 after the dictator's overthrow. Almost 20 years later La Prensa broke a story about the alleged misuse of a $700,000 check that contributed to the downfall of Perón's successor, his widow Isabel...