ARGENTINA: Sound Effects

Argentina's military Government was having its face lifted last week, hoping to look more democratic when (& if) a Pan American Conference assembles to judge its case. Three moves came in rapid succession. Cabildo, nationalist and often pro-fascist daily, was suspended for eight days for denouncing as pro-U.S. the new, tough supervisor of German firms. Argentina Libre (Free Argentina), a strongly democratic weekly closed for more than a year, was allowed to appear again. It started off with a bang, featuring on its front page a cartoon of Adolf Hitler about to be sealed in his coffin. Inside were articles...

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