LATIN EDITORS' ATTENTION FOCUSES ON PRESS IN U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300220026-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 28, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By .J ULES Ddif;O1,5
Chicago Tribune,Press S,vico
MONTEGO BAY, , Jamai-
ca; At the Inter-American
Press Association mid-year
meeting here, Latin Ameri-
i can editors found the tables
reversed.
For the first time in 15
years, the main theme of an
IAPA meeting spotlighted
the U.S. In the past, the spot-
light was on press problems
of Latin America.
This does not mean that
what is happening in the rest
of the hemisphere was ig-
nored. On the contrary. But
the Latin editors here, as
~cnll as U.S, editors and pub-
li hers, were most seriously
concerned with, the growing
trend to throttle the press in
the great democracy of the
north.
They fear that It will have
a most detrimental chain
rea etiop in their own coon-
t.r'ies.
,Phis i~ because there are
Latin American politicians
w+? h o justify any action
~igainst the press.
A resolution that emerged
from the committee on free-
dom of the press was drafted
Iry, a sub-committee that was
presided over by Dr. Manuel
Cisneros, former prime minis-
ter and former foreign minis-
ter of Peru. Dr. Cisneros is
the editor of La Cronica of
Lima.
The hoard of directors una-
niinouly, approved resolu-
tions to keep the press free
and not hinder its right to
inform.
The IAPPA has. been credit-
ed with contributing
the Improvement of the
standard of journalism in
Latin America both ill IIm
production field as well as In
the editorial field.
Pres jfl UeS
REPORT'
FROM LATIN
'AMERICA
By Jules Dubois
ate hearings which are sened-
uled to open Monday because
of the danger to their own
countries where the press is
free.
The Chileans especially
have been faced with similar
dangers. A year ago a 1925
law decreed on abuses of pub-
licity was enacted that for-
bade the publication of news
of a crime until authorized
by a judge and limited sto-
ries to 500 words and a
three-column headline. Some
editors, who thought such a
law necessary to check the
excesses of a yellow and
blackmail type of journalism
in their countries, had a
change of heart when they
were concerned.
President Edouard Frei's
minister of justice promised
to revoke that law but it has
not yet been done. What did
happen is that the Chilean
congress passed in the record
time of five minutes an am-,
nesty law that pardoned all
editors who were 'charged
with violating the,provisions
of the criminal reporting]
statute.
,The IAPA stands ready,
under its president, Pedro G.
B e I t ram, another former
prime minister of Peru and
editor of La Prensa of Lima,
to . support every publishing
and editorial association in
the U.S. on this issue. The
IAPA has recommended a
common sense approach that
will serve to-insure the pre-
servation of an unblemished
record in the exercise of free-
-dom. of the'press in the U.S.
One clement of surprise
among Latin editors was not-
ed. This was that Sen.
Wayne Morse (D., Ore.) had
reintroduced his 1963 bill to
curb press reporting of crimi-
nal trials. They were bewild-
ered that the chairman of
the sub-committee on inter-
American affairs of the .Son-
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nnttee would introduce such
a-bAl.They said they would
follow'. with interest the Sen-