The Hemisphere: 134 DAYS OF ABUSE

For 134 days, beginning last February, Buenos Aires' yanqui-baiting tabloid El Laborista has front-paged 134 unflattering, sneeringly captioned pictures of Harry Truman. Sample picture and caption (in translation):

"Mr. Harry S. Truman has been inspecting a plane. He went in smiling, and he comes out as if he were returning from hell. How many other times has he got stuck without knowing how to get out? And he keeps getting stuck, to his own sorrow and the justified wrath of many others."

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