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Juan Domingo Peron's restrictions on free press and free speech showed no signs of easing.

For spilling some loose political talk in a Buenos Aires cafe last week, eleven citizens were rounded up by the police. Portenos took this as a pointed hint of more to come; some feared that when Congress adjourned this week--the 47 Opposition deputies are about the only strong anti-Peronista voices now -- Peron's cords would be drawn tighter still.

In B.A. last week, the Government found and stopped the clandestine presses on which two issues of the banned Socialist weekly Vanguardia had been printed (TIME, Sept. 29). The Government also caught up with the middle-of-the-road weekly Argentina Libre in provincial La Plata, and closed its shop there for the same reason it had shut its B.A. plant earlier--violation of municipal ordinances. The Government did not move soon enough to stop a rousing edition that in text and cartoon pinned Peron's ears back for gagging his countrymen. The edition, a small one, was handled discreetly by Buenos Aires news dealers.

Meanwhile, the Boletin Oficial published the names of 14 newspapermen who were members of Argentina's press delegation at last month's Rio conference. Each got $837 to cover "all expenses," it said. Significantly, La Nacion, whose independence has been slipping badly, had a reporter on the list. La Prensa, still the No. 1 newspaper of Latin America, was the only important paper not on Peron's expense-account tab.

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