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...Filipino officials had more loyal friends in high places than Pedro de la Pena, 36, one of the top agents in the Philippine army intelligence service, and few Manila businessmen were noisier defenders of free enterprise than his friend, Chinese-born Antonio Chua Cruz. Chua's Chinese-language weekly Free Asia was as noted in Manila for its bitter editorial attacks on Communism as Pedro was for the endless favors and help he gave those fighting the Red menace...
...jail to sit out the ceremonies; many another had been told to stay out of Asuncion for a while. But the really dangerous enemies of the regime had long ago gone underground, or been sent to Asuncion's red-walled prison or to the isolation of the Pena Hermosa concentration camp in the steaming Chaco...
...first howl was for elections. Three days after an obscure political newcomer -Dr. J. Hortensio Quijano, Minister of the Interior-announced the freedom decree, Argentines headed for the monument to Roque Saenz Pena, author of Argentina's now-rusty election laws. They piled flowers high around Roque, booed the Government, demanded a free election...
Furthest south TIME News Bureau is in Buenos Aires, where Bill Mooney works in 46.9 square meters of linoleum-covered space in Edificio Boston on Avenida Presidente Roque Saenz Pena, a bronze, marble-and-mahogany building so fancy even for Latin America that one dazzled United Stateser exclaimed, "Where's the organ...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in Ecuador. In a speech before the town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...