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Armstrong Circle Theater (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Slow Assassination: Per on v. La Prensa, dramatization of the conflict between the Argentine dictator and the great Buenos Aires daily...
...this hint of scandal, the new administration pressed on to discover, as it explained in, last week's communique, that the costly submarines "were contracted for by direct order of ... Vice-Admiral Roque Saldias without the approval of the technical bodies of the Ministry of the Navy." La Prensa commented that "notwithstanding the gravity of these charges, the vice-admiral has so far chosen to maintain, absolute silence about them, although it is being charged that he preferred the submarines because of the juicy commissions...
...Manuel Prado's big campaign pitches when he was running for President last year was a promise to fight inflation with sol-searching* austerity. Last week, five months after his inauguration, the country's two top newspapers, El Comercio and La Prensa, both rapped him hard for breaking the promise. His first yearly budget had just emerged from Congress, at $254.6 million, the fattest in the nation's history and nearly 25% bigger than the last, spending-spree budget of President (1950-56) Manuel Odría, whom Candidate Prado had lambasted as a spendthrift. Old Soldier...
...Comercio, La Prensa (usually pro-Prado) and a lot of Peruvian businessmen, the President's freehandedness seemed dangerously inflationary. In a Lima restaurant, a Peruvian economist quipped: "If President Prado's budget is austerity, then this"-he held up a piece of Melba toast-"is a Nesselrode...
...cotton planter, publisher, and onetime Ambassador to Washington, paid the bills for Odria's successful 1948 revolution, but soon broke with Odria. Lately, Beltran has been booming a wealthy fellow businessman, Pedro Rosello, as an anti-government candidate in elections set for June. Beltran's newspaper La Prensa has loudly accused Odria of plotting to steal the elections for a hand-picked successor. To the dictator, this charge was suggestively reflected in Merino's manifesto. Cops raided and closed La Prensa. They arrested Beltran, Rosello, scores of others...