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...failure to stamp out guerrilla warfare has apparently left Rojas embarrassed and angry; his irate closing of Colombia's biggest daily, El Tiempo, last August followed his charge that the paper had reported a car-accident death as a political murder. Most foreign observers think that such highhanded measures have cost Rojas heavily in popularity. But President Rojas angrily insists that the country is still with him: "Ninety percent of the people back my government," he said. Mc-Dermott's eyebrows shot up. "Ninetynine percent," snapped Rojas...
...paper went to press with blank spaces marked "censored" where stories had been killed, troops confiscated 15,000 copies. A few days later, censorship was extended to pro-government newspapers as well. Then, last week, the government shut down en tirely the country's leading Liberal paper, El Tiempo* Reason: El Tiempo's Editor Roberto Garcia-Pena had rejected an army order to print, as his own statement, a rebuttal to criticism he had leveled at the government. When foreign newsmen filed stories about the shutdown of the internationally respected El Tiempo, they were told that their dispatches...
...back and find everything the same as it was before." Brazilians, who had been saying exactly this for years, were delighted. Said onetime Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha: "We are beginning a new era." Headlined Montevideo's El Pais; FOSTER DULLES HITS BULLSEYE. Bogotá's El Tiempo, one of Latin America's clearest democratic voices, commented: "What is heartening is the insistence on ending the policy of indifference...
...Tiempo rose to last week's challenge. After missing one day, the newspaper borrowed an idle plant and triumphantly put out an eight-page tabloid edition. Santos, now ill and living in Paris, cabled congratulations to his staff. Four days later, El Tiempo confounded everybody a second time by getting its own big presses running again. Government diehards slapped on a tough new censorship which could stop the newspaper from publishing. But for the moment, El Tiempo was selling more papers than ever before...
...week's end, perhaps the best indication of the tension in Bogotá was the fact that Liberal ex-President Alfonso López and Liberal Chieftain Carlos Lleras Restrepo, whose houses had been burned by the same mobs that sacked El Tiempo, took asylum in the Venezuelan embassy...