President Ydigoras' administration is used to being roasted by opposition newsmen, but never has it had to take such heat from a girl. Six months ago, when she got a job on the capital's influential (circ. 15,000) afternoon daily La Hora, Irma Flaquer, 22, lost no time establishing herself as one of the government's sharpest critics. Writing to help support her two children by an early, unsuccessful marriage, the pretty young newshen in her column denounces governmental corruption, ridicules its foreign policies, champions women's rights, favors birth control, blames the Latins' concept of manhood for the evils of prostitution,...
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