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...honor. The bite would be $1 per mention, plus $1 for each flattering adjective. Titles of nobility would be taxed $100, and photographs $10 per column inch. For collecting the tax, the newspapers would be allowed to keep 25% of the take. Going along with the gag, Prensa Libre used up seven adjectives in describing Minister Lopez Fresquet (who is in the Havana Social Register) as a great economist and intellectual, and then noted: "Comrade Rufo now owes...
...July 1956, with Perón booted out of Argentina, Father Cucchetti went to Italy, talked over his idea for a Christian-Jewish brotherhood movement with Vatican officials. Next he visited Israel. Back in Buenos Aires several weeks later, he launched his first trial balloon, a message in La Prensa: "Judaism and Christianity are two sides of one mountain at the summit of which is the idea of the Messiah...
...liberators freed the press and the politicians. La Prensa was restored to its owners, reappeared as a free paper. The new government unfettered the courts, named high-caliber judges, staged free union elections, stamped out most corruption. Most important, without the incessant dawdling of most Latin American military governments, the regime scheduled presidential and congressional elections, set next Feb. 23 as the hard-and-fast date for them. Aramburu barred any official of his government, including himself, from running in the elections. He also called for the election on July 28 of a Constituent Assembly to enact constitutional amendments aimed...
...balky Supreme Court. In a rewritten "social-justice" constitution, he legalized the re-election of Presidents for his own benefit, gave the state power to "intervene in the economy." He deluged the country with billboard propaganda: "Peron Fulfills, Evita Dignifies." With malicious glee he seized Buenos Aires' La Prensa, long famed as one of the world's topflight newspapers, turned it into a mouthpiece for the C.G.T. And with engaging buffoonery, he joked at his own career: "As the man who fell from the skyscraper said upon passing the third floor, so far I'm doing fine...
...succeeding days became a time for opportunistic maneuvering by the political forces of right, center and left. The right soon captured Lonardi and sold him a policy of appeasing Peronistas in the hope of forming them into a right-wing political party. Item: Lonardi refused to take La Prensa away from the C.G.T. Other revolutionary leaders watched in rising dismay. One Sunday afternoon two months after Lonardi took office, the revolutionaries gently eased him out and installed Aramburu, who, as army chief of staff, had been impressively deperonizing the officer corps. President Aramburu never saw his plotting companion again. Lonardi...