Word: prensa
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...investigation of the conduct of foreign news agencies functioning in our country, in view of the dissemination by these agencies of baseless stories of sensationalist or alarming character." The order called for "energetic steps for definitive repression" if the charges were true. Fidel Castro's news agency, Prensa Latina, cheered the order. But the independent Jornal do Brasil saw it as a clear threat to a free press: "If the President thinks he is going to take the press by the throat, order investigations right and left, silence newspapers without resistance, he is very much mistaken...
...making money. They control New York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since the death of A. P. Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken...
...powerful beam of Radio Peking, which recently jumped its broadcasts to 31½ hours a day in Spanish and Portuguese. Or they can simply turn to their daily papers, spotted with news from the New China News Agency, which often operates alongside Fidel Castro's mouthpiece Prensa Latina...
...Información, the last Havana paper not under direct government control and the only one that did not subscribe to the government-owned Prensa Latina news agency, was also the only remaining journalistic outlet for even mild criticism of Castro. Last week, when Información, bedeviled by government economic pressures, decided to abandon the struggle, even the façade of press freedom finally collapsed in Cuba...
...County already counts 22,000 unemployed Americans, and probably no more than 1,000 refugees have regular jobs. Former Under Secretary of Commerce Carlos Smith, 52, wears a white coat as a Fontainebleau Hotel room wait er; former Supreme Court Justice Jose Cabezas is a fruit-plant shipping clerk; Prensa Libre's onetime personnel director. Diego Gonzalez, 42. sorts soda bottles in a supermarket for 70? an hour and is glad to have the work. "We get $6 to $8 a day," said a former customs officer who finds casual work on the docks. "We split with the others...