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...what they called "anti-Catholicism" (among other things, they objected to his approval of government birth control programs), Dorvillier's Star was the only paper on the island-which is 90% Catholic-to campaign editorially against the clerics' intervention. While San Juan's Spanish dailies, El Mundo (circ. 58,586) and El Impartial (51,720) dropped out after protesting the pastoral letter, the Star persisted boldly with 20 editorials that drew a stinging answer from the church. James Edward McManus, Bishop of Ponce and leader of the church attack on Muñoz Marin, charged Dorvillier with...
...decided to stay. For the next 20 years, he aspired to do just what he is doing now: run a successful English-language daily in San Juan. The Star is his third attempt. During the 1940s, Dorvillier edited the Puerto Rico World Journal, English-language subsidiary of El Mundo, but El Mundo dropped the paper when many of its readers-U.S. servicemen stationed in Puerto Rico-went home after the war. Dorvillier also presided over the World Journal's brief and ill-fated revival...
...opposition's strongest blow to date found Castro showing signs of strain. El Mundo Editor Luis Gomez Wanguermert, a Castro spokesman, said flatly: "Cuba would welcome any relaxation of tension with the U.S." A few nights later at Havana University, Castro himself announced: "The Cuban revolution does not have to be exported...
...Mundo, owned by the multimillionaire clan of Amadeo H. Barletta (U.S. investments, expropriated Cuban TV stations, G.M. distributorship), dispatches some of its 2,000 copies under "official" sponsorship: sailors in Castro's coast guard, restive under the dictatorship, smuggle in the twelve-page, heavily illustrated standard-size paper. Other copies reach their destination by private boat nd through the diplomatic pouch of anti-Castro governments. The eight-column paper (circ. 11,000) is varityped in Miami, sent to New Jersey for printing, then flown back to Miami. Of El Mundo's staff of 25, only four or five...
...second. In response to a newsman's question last week, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker said that "Canada has no intention whatsoever of imposing any embargo on Canadian goods in Cuban trade." The Cuban reaction could hardly have been happier. Cheered Havana's El Mundo: "In Canada there does not prevail the aggressive hysteria which blinds the United States." The Castro paper ran a cartoon showing Canada's sturdy arm breaking the "Yankee economic blockade" around Cuba. Added the Cuban embassy in Ottawa: Relations with Canada are "perfect...