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...threat by dropping in for an interview at the former dictator's modest suite in the U.S.-owned Hotel Washington in Colón, Panama. The marked men: Argentine navy and air force officers; such big industrialists as the Bembergs (beer) and Raúl Lamuraglia (textiles); La Prensa Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz and that paper's longtime news service, the United Press; the rulers of Uruguay, where Perón's exiles plotted; and the Roman Catholic clergy...
When Peronistas seized La Prensa in Buenos Aires, they tore down the bronze statue atop the newspaper's building and hacked it into pieces. Symbolically, the statue was a woman representing truth, with a torch in one hand and La Prensa in the other. Last week the arm bearing the torch was unveiled in the building at a triumphant ceremony restoring the plant to Editor-Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz. "We return to our house," he told almost 2,000 loyal ex-staffers and friends...
...like the newspaper in the statue's left hand, La Prensa itself was still missing. Soon after Gainza Paz ended almost five years of exile (TIME, Dec. 12), the paper stopped publishing until the Argentine government could complete the technicalities of restoring it to Gainza Paz. After last week's ceremony, the publisher began going to his old office daily to reassemble his staff and tackle production problems. He planned to devote Page One to news instead of the traditional London Times-like classified ads, considered making body type larger and writing more concise. But before he could...
...more than four years, Señora Zelmira Anchorena de Gainza Paz, now 81, has phoned Buenos Aires' La Prensa almost every week and demanded of the switchboard operator: "When are you going to give La Prensa back to the owners?" Last week, the switchboard girl answered: "Soon, Señora." Next day, by decree of President Aramburu, La Prensa was taken from the custody of the government, which had expropriated it, and returned to Owner Doña Zelmira and the Paz family. The paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree...
...sheet. Since the paper's seizure, loyal staffers had turned to such odd jobs as driving trucks, selling wine, refrigerators and auto parts. Fifteen had spent six months to two years in Perón's jails on charges of plotting revolutions. Many second-and third-generation Prensa employees would meet daily on streetcorners or at cafeterias to kindle hope and recall past glories when the paper was a daily encyclopedia of world news rivaled only by the New York Times and the Times of London...