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It was as. part of this government program to silence the opposi tion by economic pressure that action was taken against the iqdependent pr'ess. The government first tried I unsuccessfully to obtain control over the national paper company and, thus, control the distribution of newsprint Other pressures then were applied to individual news outlets extensions .on loans were not granted by banks which by now had fallen under government. control, taxes on independent news medsa were raased to astronomsca1 proportions, and large claims for back taxes were made which required expensive litigation to -contest. Government adverti si ng and the large revenue it produced no longer was available 'to any but government-lining outlets. And, the government. incited Marxist-controlled. labor unions to strike against the independent slandering the Al 1 ende government As an adjunct to economic pres'sures the Allend e regime r power. " Revolutionary began to develop the concept of "papula news media and even close them down temporarily for allegedly organizations were formed which paralleled the functions of legal, existing organizations. Special (JAPS) thus were established to control communal commands ,the distribution of channel ed thr ough these communcal comma nds rather than through had the dual function existing retail ootl ets. The commands of displacing. "bourgeois" organizations and trainin~ their members for armed revolution. IS essential articles, mainly food, and government supplies were SEE T