Word: paz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...more than four years, Señora Zelmira Anchorena de Gainza Paz, now 81, has phoned Buenos Aires' La Prensa almost every week and demanded of the switchboard operator: "When are you going to give La Prensa back to the owners?" Last week, the switchboard girl answered: "Soon, Señora." Next day, by decree of President Aramburu, La Prensa was taken from the custody of the government, which had expropriated it, and returned to Owner Doña Zelmira and the Paz family. The paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree...
...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...
Bolivia's professorial President Victor Paz Estenssoro, struggling to rid his poverty-stricken nation of its longtime dependence on tin exports, signed a decree last week opening the way for foreign capital to come in and drill for oil. As the government's cut, the new Bolivian law demands 11% of the crude oil produced, plus 30% of net profits, plus a yearly concession tax of a few cents an acre...