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...Seaga to succeed leftist Michael Manley, a Castro ally, as Prime Minister. Jamaica has now swung so strongly against Cuba that Seaga sent troops to assist in the invasion of Grenada and last week expelled the last semiofficial Cuban on the island, a correspondent for the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. Seaga charged that the correspondent had participated with four Soviet diplomats in a plot to assassinate a Jamaican Foreign Ministry official. The Soviets were also thrown out. Even Manley was less than vehement in opposing the invasion of Grenada. He expressed "profound sharing of concern about the brutality...
...showings of U.S. major league baseball games to reruns of Lou Grant. Print is another matter. The Sandinistas own or control two daily newspapers, the pro-government Nuevo Diario and the official Sandinista paper Barricada. Both provide a predictable medley of government propaganda, while the only opposition newspaper, La Prensa, is subject to strict censorship...
...them. For more than 40 years, the family was united in its opposition to the harsh and repressive regimes of successive members of the Somoza family. For three decades, that opposition was led by Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, brilliant and unflinching editor of the Managua daily La Prensa. On Jan. 10, 1978, Chamorro, 53, was gunned down on his way to the office by Sonioza henchmen. The apparent motive: retaliation for a La Prensa disclosure that a blood bank owned in part by Somoza was selling much needed blood abroad at a profit...
...sunder the bereaved family. In 1980, only a year after the revolution, the newspaper was paralyzed by a struggle between family members who supported the new Sandinista government and those critical of its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. The conservatives won, and Chamorro's brother Xavier, editor of La Prensa, left to form his own newspaper, taking most of the staff with him. Today Chamorro's widow, his brothers and sisters and four children are arrayed in almost equal numbers on opposing sides of the country's political battleground...
...three daily newspapers in Managua are published by Chamorros, each with a different editorial line. La Prensa (circ. 56,000) is now jointly edited by Chamorro's eldest son and namesake, Pedro Joaquin, 32, Chamorro's cousin Pablo Antonio Cuadra, 71, and uncle Jaime Chamorro, 49. El Nuevo Diario (circ. 48,000), edited by Xavier, 50, is solidly progovernment. Barricada (circ. 80,000), edited by Chamorro's youngest son, Carlos Fernando, 27, is the official paper of the Sandinista movement...