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PLACES! exclaimed a headline on the Chicago Tribune editorial page last week. The editorial below explained that Jules Dubois, the Trib's veteran Latin America correspondent, had been permanently barred as an "agitator" from Strongman Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Reason: as chairman of the Inter-American Press...
It was not the first time that a Latin American dictator had struck at Jules Dubois. Dubbed the "No.1 Gangster of U.S. Journalism" by Perón's kept press, Jules Dubois, 47. is a shrewd, belligerently honest reporter of the old school who has been pistol-whipped, jailed...
Sacred Duty. Husky, blue-eyed Reporter Dubois, who wears unbreakable plastic spectacles as a precaution against manhandling, keeps his ears cocked for news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny...
The Egyptians complained to Swiss Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre, and an investigation began. Swiss newspapers spoke guardedly of Swiss agents who were being questioned by Dubois. Then the heat was turned on Dubois: the interrogator was interrogated. Returning home one afternoon Dubois took out his Swiss army pistol, and shot...
But the Swiss government was of another opinion, issued a brief communiqué saying that "clues" indicated that Attorney General Dubois had illegally furnished information to a foreign service, and hastened to assure the Swiss that it was "information which does not affect Swiss affairs." Dubois had committed the unpardonable...