The World - News from March 4, 1986
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Freedom of the press does not exist or is severely restricted in Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Guyana and Suriname, the Inter-American Press Assn. was told. But Wilbur G. Landrey, chairman of the press freedom committee, told delegates at IAPA’s mid-year meeting in Salvador, Brazil, that there was “major good news” for press freedom in the fall of Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier.
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