The Press: One Up, Three Down

After nine years, press freedom came back to Argentina last week by proclamation of Provisional President Eduardo Lonardi. On the same day, anti-Peronist employees of the famed independent La Prensa, seized by Perón in 1951, threw pictures and busts of the dictator and his wife, Eva. from the building, began publishing the paper minus the masthead slogan "in the era of Perón." Editor and Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, who has lived in exile in Manhattan, prepared to fly back to Buenos Aires in hopes of resuming control of Latin America's greatest newspaper. Said he: "I will fight for the reopening...

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