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...defense of Republica is the defense of freedom...
...storm center of last week's action was the Socialist newspaper Republica, which was seized by its Communist typesetters and then shuttered by the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). Since the Portuguese revolution in April 1974, the well-organized Communists have gained what amounts to virtual control over the nation's television, radio and most of its principal newspapers, which were taken over by the state when the government nationalized the banks last March. For weeks the Communists had also been trying to take control of the editorial policies of Republica, one of the last non-Communist papers...
...Quemado Palace, Bolivia's presidential seat, has one entrance marked "RB" for Republica de Bolivia. Nowadays wits in La Paz insist that the initials actually stand for Rene Barrientos, the present occupant. The onetime air force commander was elected three years ago, following the coup that toppled Victor Paz Estenssoro. At the time, Bolivians predicted that he was politically too naive to survive longer than six months. With only a year to go before Barrientos completes a full term, even critics now admit that the handsome, mercurial chief executive has put his stamp on the country as have...
Since Goldwater's defeat, the leaders of the Republica Party have been Congressmen, mostly from rural areas, Brooke explained. These men, he suggested, are not in touch with the modern problems of cities and urban development...
...McLaughlin Green's Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878; Biography: Leon Edel's two-volume continuation of his life of Henry James, The Conquest of London and The Middle Years; General nonfiction: Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August; News photography: Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas; Cartoon: Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register; Editorial writing: Ira B. Harkey Jr. of the Pascagoula, Miss., Chronicle; Local reporting not under deadline: Oscar O. Griffin Jr. of the Pecos, Texas, Independent and Enterprise; Local reporting under deadline: Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood...