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...allayed their criticism of the government. Local journalists say that a media law that increases penalties for slander has encouraged self-censorship. And even media owners soft on Chavez admit that the constant pro-government trailers and late-night slandering of the opposition on the main state-run channel, Venezolana de Television, is little more than propaganda. The international response hasn't been favorable either, as the European Union and the U.S. Senate have expressed concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Chavez Stifling the Media? | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...were legal or illegal. So far, only one grand jury is known to have been empaneled, in Jacksonville. It is looking into alleged overcharges to the Jacksonville Electric Authority, which received fuel during the crisis from a Coral Gables company partially owned by a Houston conglomerate and the Corporacidn Venezolana del Petroleo, the state-owned oil and gas company in Venezuela. Company officials have denied any wrongdoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Energy, Bananas and Israeli Cash | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

...Joint Center, a co-operative research venture of Harvard and M.I.T., announced yesterday that it has received $600,000 from the Ford Foundation and $400,000 from the Corporation Venezolana de Guayana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Urban Research Receives Grants Worth $1 Million | 3/4/1963 | See Source »

...dream, clear and bright with waxing moon glowing yellow in the sky. In the tower at New York's Idlewild Airport, controlmen expertly ticked off the routine comings and goings of scores of aircraft. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., the routine broke: an LAV (for Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) Super Constellation, droning southward from Idlewild across the black Atlantic toward Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Moonlight | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...only one makeshift administration building and two hangars), so the Authority did no more than try to contain the airlines' rebellion. It canceled the operating permits at La Guardia of such foreign lines as Peruvian International Airways, Scandinavian Airlines system, K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Air France and Sabena (Belgian Airlines), in effect forcing them to accept its invitation to move to Idlewild. Domestic airlines which had their eyes on New Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal (20 minutes from Manhattan) found that the Authority had got there first with a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Hub of the World | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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