Guyana newspaper threat

A CAMPAIGN to save the Catholic Standard, the weekly newspaper of the Catholic Church in Guyana, South America, is being backed by the British MP David Alton.
The newspaper has been under constant pressure since 1978, when it criticised a Guyanan government referendum designed to delay General Elections.
The Catholic a rd an bishops of Guyana have sct up a Committee in Defence of the Catholic Standard, and have circulated a letter asking for the backing of prominent Catholics in this country.
The letter says that during 1980 and 1981 gifts of newsprint from the Papal Nuncio to the Caribbean, the United States Conference of Catholic bishops and the Anglican Church of Canada were -rused entr
the Guyana govcament withu,At any reason being offered.