ARGENTINA: Love in Power

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Buenos Aires' great independent newspaper La Prensa was dead last week, its life snuffed out by Juan Perón. By act of the rubber-stamp Argentine Congress, the world-famed paper had been expropriated and, in Perón's cynical words, "handed over to the workers for whatever use they think best." La Prensa will soon appear as the mouthpiece of the Perón-dominated General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.).

From his favorite balcony at Buenos

Aires' Government House, Pern shouted: "This newspaper, which for so many years exploited the workers and the poor, which was a refined...

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