In the press room of Buenos Aires' La Prensa, Editor-Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz last week started the presses rolling out the first edition of his famed newspaper since he regained it from the government. The issue set a new La Prensa pressrun record of 840,000 copies (previous high: 740,000) as Argentines snapped up copies as historic souvenirs.
Gainza Paz had swept his staff clean of those who went on writing and editing during the five years the paper was under the Perón regime. The first issue, which ran 24 pages, and had to ration advertising...
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