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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. Ortober 21, 1S57
Argentina's Editor Paz Agrees
vVil-Si Campaign Yaged by Porter
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Latin America's
best known editor agrees with
the anti-dictatorship campaign
being waed by Oreson's Con-m-
mM. ''7'K'-'-m zressman
A. RobL Smilb
C h a r 1 e g O.
Porter and
says the Unit
ed States
should show
a preference
for the democ
racies of this
hemisphere.
"Everybody
in Latin Amer
ica is very pleased, except me
dictatorships," observed Alberto
Gainza Paz, editor of La Prensa
of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in
an interview concerning reaction
to Porter's campaign during the
recent session of Congress.
Gainza Paz, who fought Dic
tator Juan Peron until Peron
closed down La Prensa and forc
ed the editor to flee for his life,
said the case of Gerald Lester
Murphy, missing Eugene, Ore.,
aviator, has been a big story all
over South America. Porter has
been the prime mover in getting
action to investigate Dominican
Republic agents of the govern
ment of Dictator Trujillo. A fed
eral erand jury Is continuing a
long investigation here by listen
ing to witnesses intermittently,
having already brought forth in
dictments against one Trujillo
agent.
Good Impression Created
"Congressman Porter has
created a very good impression
in Latin America," declared the
Argentine editor, here for the
annual meeting of the Inter
American Press Association.
"I agree with him." he replied
when asked what he thought of
Porter's criticism of the Eisen
hower administration's policy of
giving equal friendship and aid
to dictators and democracies in
Latin America.
United States cannot have the
same smile for a dictatorship
that it has for a democratic gov
ernment. I don't think there
should be any reprisals against
dictatorships, but there should
be a certain amount of aloofness
on the part of the American gov
ernment toward them."
He said "The democratic peo
ple of Latin America would be
happy to see such an attitude"
for it would tend to give moral
support to democratic elements.
"We resent coddling dictat
ors." added Gainza Paz.
Visible Contempt
He recalled with visible con
tempt a remark by former Secre
tary of the Navy Charles S.
Thomas in a visit to Argentina
when Thomas compared Peron
with George Washington "in a
rapture of oratorical enthus
iasm." Gainza Paz said there was no
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reason for the American govern
ment to bestow medals on Latin
dictators, as it has in recent
years.
He said that for strategic mili
tary reasons you can have mili
tary agreements with dictator
ships without praising the dicta
tor as a "great defender of free
dom and human rights when he
isn't."
La Prensa has been publish
ing ever since Peron fled 'Argen
tina. The Inter-American Press
Association, in its meetings here,
hit hard at restrictions imposed
on the press in Cuba and the
Dominican Republic. Leading
this action of condemnation was
Jules DuBois, correspondent in
Latin America for the Chicago
Tribune. IAPA threw out one
newspaper. La Nacion, of Ciu
dad Trujillo for being a mouth
piece of the Trujillo government.
Reaction Unanimous
DuBois, who roves through
out Latin America, said press re
action in free countries has been
"unanimous" in support of Por
ter's campaign. DuBois was de
scribed during the IAPA meet
ings as an "irreplacable cham
pion of freedom of the press"
who is the "target of merciless
attack by the muzzlers of a free
press."
Editor Pedro Chamorro of
Managua, Nicaragua, credits
IAPA with his being alive to
day. After the assassination of
Nicaraguan dictator Samoza, last
fall, Chamorro was accused of
instigating the killing through
his writing, jailed and tortured
and told to "confess." He was
released only after IAPA mem
ber editors began to focus public
attention on the case.
IAPA member newspapers
inow reach 75,000,000 readers.
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Queen also holds a doll given to her for her daughter,
Princess Anne.
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Out
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By DOC QUIGG This seems not quite strong
Uniied Press Staff Correspondent enough to me.
France Hears Crisis; Premier Seeks Ouf
Paris (IP) President Rene
Coty ordered former Premier
Robert Schumari Saturday to
find a way to save France from
bankruptcy.
Coty, who had been expected
to ask Schuman to try to form
Trial Delay Given
Teamsfer Ex-Chief
Tacoma, Wash. UP) Outgo
ing Teamster President Dave
Beck will go on trial here April
14 on charges of evading S240,
000 in income taxes.
U. S. District Judge George H.
Boldt Friday granted Beck and
five co-defendants a three-month
delay beyond the originally
scheduled Jan. 6 trial date. Boldt
said his ruling was to give the
defense attorneys more time to
prepare for the trial.
Co-defendants are Beck's son,
Dave Jr., Fred Verschueren,
teamster auditor, Norman J.
Gessert, a cousin of Mrs. Beck
Sr., Chicago labor relations con
sultant Nathan W. Shefferman
and his son, Shelton.
FORMER EDNCATOR DIES
New York (IP) Jason E. Ham
mond, 95, former Michigan ed
ucator and political and business
adviser, died Sunday.
New York (IP) You prob
ably haven't realized it, but there
is a good deal of fishybacking go
ing on in this country.
Fishybacking? That's more or
less water-going piggybacking.
In the hot and heavy race of
our lexicographers to keep up
with our up-and-jumping lan
guage, those two words have just
made the dictionary. Although
the dictionary doesn't say, pre
sumably those well-known gen
tlemen of the road, the teamsters,
invented both.
Piggybacking is defined: "The
transporting of loaded truck
trailers, especially on railroad
flat cars." Fishybacking is "the
transporting of loaded truck
trailers by barge, ferry or sim
ilar vessel. "
They are included in the 1957
edition of "The American Col
lege Dictionary," an erudite tone
that keeps the language sorted
and strives mightily every year
to dig what people are saying
and to stuff itself accordingly
and properly.
It's a pleasure to note that the
current edition has caught up
with aqualung, blacktop, and'
bordello that it knows a tran
quilizer is "any drug that reduces
tension, anxiety;" and that a
freeloader is "one who imposes
on others for free food, enter
tainment, etc."
Not Strong Enough
Because God made so many of
them, it also is a pleasure to see
that jerks, screwballs, wacks,
goofs, and goops are right in
there with their definitions. A
jerk, it says, is "an unknowing,
unsophisticated, or unconven
tional person."
Screwball "An erratic, accen
tric, or unconventional person."
Wack "An erratic, irrational,
or unconventional person."
Thus, apparently, a wack is a
little wackier than a screwball,
to feel that this whole subject
is an awful nuisance, let's look
at a nuisance word: Well. Many
people are unable to answer a
question without starting out,
"well . . ." And in that usage
the dictionary says the word is
"merely a preliminary to further
speech."
In my bright lexicon, "well"
ary a dictionary list the fine
word uh? Unh-unh. This one does
not even list "ary." However,
we shouldn't carp. It lists a great
one:
Veep Cap V "The vice-presi
dent of the United States."
since he can be irrational where used thus means "uh." But does
the screwball is merely eccen
tric. A goop is "a bad-mannered
person" and a goof is a 'foolish
or stupid person." But, alas, this
fine word-pile has not included
the oft-heard verb form of goof,
as in "somebody goofed." May
be next edition. . .
I also looked in vain for that
popular variant of goof: Boo
hoo. Perhaps the editor figured
he might make a boo-boo by
putting it in, because it may die
out in a jiffy "A very short
time. Also, jiff. Orig. unknown."
Hifalutin is there, and snafu;
bebop, bebopped, and hi-fi. The
jet age is served by flame-out,
which is "the failure of a jet en
gine in flight or during take
off." And, of course, youth is
served by hot rod two words, in
cidentally "A car usually an
old one whose engine has been
altered for increased speed."
Hipster Missing
Hipped, as if you didn't know,
"He's hipped on playing the tu
ba' " and you've got to be re
ally hipped for that one. Hip
ster, however, isn't there; not
yet, that is.
The current terrific usage of
the adjective terrific draws a
dictionary curtsey in one defin
ition 'of the word: "Extraordin
arily great, intense etc." Ditto for
terrific's pal, awful: "Very, very
great."
Well, in case you're beginning
a new government, shoved poli
tics aside in a drive to solve the
nation's fast-growing economic
problems.
Coty put the economic pro
gram above growing demands
for constitutional reforms that
would ensure a strong and last
ing government for France.
The nation technically has no
government at all now since the
government of radical Maurice
Bourges-Maunoury, which fell
Sept. 30, resigned Friday night
when conservative Antoine Pin
ay decided to form a new cabin
ent in the National assembly.
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