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Fair Deal. Only 100% Peronista newspapers are safe from zealous Deputy Visca and the congressional committee of investigation that he directs. The lesson that even friends in high places cannot make up for any deviation from government doctrine was sharply illustrated last week in the case of José W. Agusti, 56, newspaper owner, millionaire and until lately a friend...
...Agusti sold his favorite paper, Buenos Aires' evening Noticias Grádficas, to Evita for 6,000,000 pesos (then $1,800,000); he remained courteously mum when only 300,000 pesos of the price was actually paid. This tactful gesture won him entree into the best Peronista circles. In recent weeks Agusti had found that Visca's newsprint squeeze was tightening uncomfortably on his independent journal Córdoba (circ. 20,000). With easy confidence he went to call on Visca at the congressional palace to straighten things...
...when the committee members finally came out, Visca ignored Agusti's outstretched hand, seized him by the lapel and roared: "Get out of here or I will break your face!" Only a few hours earlier, Visca had seen a piece in Córdoba referring to Peronista congressmen as "inefficient drones." To emphasize his disapproval, Visca shut Córdoba down entirely...
When Argentina's 100% Peronista Senate met last week to consider a list of high army officers recommended for promotion, it noted a glaring omission: the name of Brigadier General Juan D. Peron. Summoned to explain the slight, Army Minister Franklin Lucero reported that the President had brilliantly fulfilled the requirements for promotion to major general, but had expressly ordered his name excluded from the list. "However," cried Lucero, "unless Congress remedies this situation, the President will find himself in an inferior status to his own fellows, purely because of his scruples...
...Nation into court on libel charges. Other papers were also punished for opposition to his regime. Salta's outspoken El In-transigente found its newsprint supply cut off and so did Buenos Aires' tabloid Clarin. In Cordoba, inspectors found the printing plant of the firmly anti-Peronista Jesuit daily Los Principios "insanitary," and peremptorily padlocked it. This week Los Principios and Clarin had been allowed to resume publication, but a congressional committee closed the Communist daily La Hora, charging it with "anti-Argentine activities...