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Every letter we get (an average of 1,200 per week) goes to Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff of nine, who answer the mail, analyze trends and distribute excerpts of the most interesting letters among TIME's staff. Isabel Kouri, a letters correspondent since 1960, answers mail critical of our Watergate coverage. "A striking number of readers are worrying about the image of the presidency itself," she says. Last week she wrote to one such reader: "It seems to us that in the long run, competent, thorough, honest and aggressive news reporting is the servant of the national...
...food he eats," said the prosecutor. Bon Vivant's lawyer answered that such a charge amounted to "scare tactics designed to get a decision based on passion." The prosecutor promised to bring in "perhaps three dozen" microbiologists to prove his case. Bon Vivant's principal owner, Mrs. Maria Paretti, insisted that the food was perfectly safe, and added a little mysteriously, "Perhaps we could give it to a needy country...
Uruguay. The general strike that had paralyzed the country was called off by the trade union bureaucrats, sending much of their unhappy membership back to work. But the resistance to the newly proclaimed dictatorship of President Juan Maria Bordaberry will not end. The left is strong in Uruguay, and as it squares off with the military in coming weeks, Bordaberry may discover he has bitten off more than he can chew...
...Moments after the Uruguayan Congress wound up a midnight session last week in Montevideo, radio stations began broadcasting military marches. While the city slept, columns of troops and armored tanks moved into the capital. The next afternoon, President Juan Maria Bordaberry, backed by his military overseers, announced on television that he had dissolved Congress and replaced it with a 20-member "Council of State" headed by himself...
...permanently retired after all. Maria Callas, the volcanic soprano whose last role was Tosca at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1965, explained that she had "developed some bad vocal habits. So I retired to start again." Now a worldwide Callas tour that would begin in the fall was being announced. For some time she has been moving back into music. Her voice has lost its reach, no doubt, but she still has a grasp of dramatic music to hold any audience in thrall. Callas will be heard only in concert, so the fascinated public will be spared those...