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JOURNALISM. Since the murder of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, et seq.), Buenos Aires' last surviving independent daily is La Natión-proud, conservative, accurate. Argentines who hunger for honest news instead of government pap now queue up at the paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line...
...quick south-of-the-border divorce from Wife Nancy (who is about to bring her own suit in California), Frankie snarled: "You're wasting your time. Why don't you go home and have your dinner?" In Mexico City he lost his temper again and La Prensa labeled him "the mediocre tenor of very limited resources [who] hates newsmen...
...than the boyish-faced Paz, Remorino is a power in the Argentine government, a sharp, vindictive hand at bureaucratic intrigue, and a trusted counselor to Evita Perón. When he thinks the Peróns are making a mistake, as in last winter's closing of La Prensa, he does not hesitate to say so. In his new job, he can at least tell the Peróns what the U.S. is likely to think of some of their authoritarian antics...
...Argentine government and law, and some of President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine to the U.S. that after he got home he asked Perón to give him the Washington assignment...
...exempts newsprint from import duties when it is used for "cultural" purposes. Last week the Perón government ruled that newsprint used for advertising is subject to the tariff. From the Ministry of Finance to the chief opposition papers went telegrams demanding payment of back duties. For La Prensa, ordered to come across in 72 hours, the ruling meant that its recent "expropriation" by the government was actually confiscation; the $2,300,000 assessed for customs would probably just cancel out the newspaper's "value" the way the government will compute it. For La Nación, which...