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...daily La Prensa and promised that its criticism of the Sandinista government would not be censored, as it has been in the past. The government even gave the economically shaky newspaper funds to buy scarce and expensive newsprint, the shortage of which brought La Prensa to the brink of shutdown last week. The Sandinistas have also sent home some 2,100 Cuban technicians, teachers and other workers whose presence in Nicaragua was a primary cause of concern to the Reagan Administration. An undisclosed number of Cuban military advisers remain...
...government has also eased its tight censorship of the nation's only opposition newspaper, La Prensa. The paper, however, announced last week that because of a shortage of newsprint it would suspend publication indefinitely on Dec. 7. Editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro blamed the shutdown on the government's refusal to release U.S. dollars to buy newsprint. He also acknowledged that censorship had eased, though not ended. Indeed, his announcement of the shutdown was censored completely...
...under the terms of the JOA, if either paper were to shut down, its owners would share profits for 50 years in the surviving daily, a potentially lucrative monopoly Last summer, after negotiations, the Newhouse and Pulitzer interests applied secretly for Justice Department approval of a collaborative shutdown of the Globe-Democrat. They won it last week...
...options to be considered include reopening the club, placing it on probation, closing it indefinitely, or effecting a permanent shutdown, Epps said yesterday...
...shutdown was originally scheduled for two Sundays ago but was postponed because of rain. "We picked Sunday because we knew it would have the best traffic and also be the least harmful for store owners," said Garry P. Balboni, the project manager for the Perini Construction Co. which is working on the subway extension. The project is expected...