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Until he does, Doonesbury seems likely to be the strip of the '70s, if any strips survive. Rising prices and chronic shortages of newsprint have driven editors to drop marginally popular panels and shrink survivors to the size of chewing-gum wrappers. That crunch may eventually catch up with Doonesbury, which needs plenty of space for its extended dialogues. A less immediate danger is that Doonesbury's following may shed the passive disillusionment and cynicism that Trudeau satisfies so wittily. Already some of Doonesbury's younger followers are finding the strip a bit bland and irrelevant...
...lightly. All 30 of the Diário de Notícias rebels have been suspended. Meanwhile, Gonçalves has tried to rally public opinion by condemning unfriendly publications as "those rags and those libertines." More ominous are reports that the government plans to cut the supply of newsprint to dissenting newspapers-and worse. "I think that there should be one morning newspaper and one afternoon newspaper," Correia Jesuino told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. "We can't afford to have so many newspapers...
...having financial problems, Amaury announced early this year that he would cut the payroll by some 300 employees, including 200 printers. After a series of walkouts, the printers finally took over two Le Parisien Libéré plants on May 6 and barricaded themselves behind giant rolls of newsprint. They have been there ever since...
...questions fired at him by people he doesn't know and who seem to have no sympathy for him or any of the other characters they ask about. And he says he resents the presumption of newspapermen, to summarize what he has said in one or two paragraphs of newsprint in some daily paper. Ideas, he says, are communicated by whole conversations or whole books...
Kearns and Goodwin insist that they had only the quality of the book in mind and never expected such an outpouring of newsprint and vitriol when she switched publishers. Whenever I call Kearns, I ask, "Don't you think you made a mistake?" and she always croons. "No, I just didn't know all this would happen. I Just didn't know," Kearns, in this very sweet way, had the wool over at least one reporter's eyes for a long time. At first she would only talk about Glikes-as-a-rejected-lover off the record, and when...