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4 The Sioux City Journal, Thursday, November 22, 1984 Exiled journalist finds changes after his return .1 "I said the paper (La Razon) was going down and down I told him what nobody else had," Timerman recalled. Peralta Ramos offered him the job of assistant publisher and editor-in-chief. Timerman insisted on total control of editorial policy and the right to restart La Opinion. The publisher agreed, he said. Timerman scrapped La Razon's old-fashioned vertical layout in favor of sweeping banner headlines, often proclaiming charges against the military by human rights groups or Congress.

He has hired dozens of new reporters, including 10 to run a new economics section, offering the high salaries that had attracted much of the cream of Buenos Aires journalists to the old La Opinion in its 10, 1983, presidential inauguration of lawyer and human rights activist Raul Alfonsin, whom Timerman calls "an old friend." Indeed, he said only Alfonsin's victory convinced him to return. "Everything was open and beautiful," Timerman said of a visit in January. "I again had the feeling of the country. I decided with my wife to come back and make a try." Timerman and his wife, Risha, returned for good In March, when "I began to get involved, interested full of passion for what was going on in Argentina." Timerman had begun his journalistic career as La Razon's political editor in 1958, and approached the newspaper's publisher, Patricio Peralta Ramos, for help in restarting La Opinion. country, try to give it for their own reasons." Asked if he has any contact with those Jewish leaders now, Timerman, a Jew, declared with a scowl: "No.

I have nothing to do with them." Timerman's odyssey began in April 1977, when he was running the highly regarded newspaper La Opinion. His house was stormed by 20 plainclothesmen who dragged him off to be tortured in clandestine detention centers. He was accused of economic fraud and links to leftist subversion. Despite an international outcry and two rulings of innocence by the nation's courts, he remained under arrest until his expulsion in September 1979. He lived in Israel, Spain and New York until the Dec.

Then It changed," he said. "Newspapers change." His return was not welcomed by conservative leaders in the Argentine Jewish community. His book about his captivity, "Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number," had accused them of complicity in human rights abuse for not openly criticizing the anti-Semitism of many of the armed forces' leaders. The Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations refused to comment on Timerman's return, but Mario Gorenstein, the organization's president when Timerman's book caused a furor in 1981, said then: "Anti-semitism is an endemic disease here. But It does not exist in the spectacular proportions that some people, especially outside the BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Journalist Jacobo Timerman, who had vowed never to return to a country where he was imprisoned, tortured and finally exiled, is back at work in Argentina and "full of passion" for its democratic renaissance.

"You must realize it is the first time for me, living under a democratic regime in Argentina," he said in a recent newsroom interview. "This is a new thing." Timerman, 61, assumed the editorship of the afternoon daily La Eazon on Aug. 15, and since his return has modified the rightist editorial stance and has adjusted to working for a paper that supported (he previous military government. "This paper was the most democratic in the country at one time. Christmas Gift Youth NFL Football Helmets NFL VVastebaskets $095 24 00 iievuay.

4 "It you pay them well, they happy. They write well. They com with imagination and ideas," hi said. Such abrupt changes could kill i newspaper, alienating old readers without providing time for attracting new subscribers. But Timmerman contends the 80-year-old La Razon has enjoyed a rise in both circulation (estimated at 190,000) and advertising revenue since his arrival.

To show that the paper has not suddenly turned anti-military, he hired a former military president Gen. Alejandro Lanusse, to write a weekly column. Lanusse oversaw elections in the early 1970s, ending an earlier period of rule by the armed forces, and has been critical of the last military regime. Ideas At Hauff's! Footballs Spalding, Leather. Official Size-.

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