The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) honored German Emilio Ornes, director of El Caribe, with the distinction of life honorary president of the Freedom of the Press and Information Commission of the IAPA. Ornes presided over the committee for several years. A delegation of the IAPA, headed by the president of the organization, Oliver F. Clarke, of the Daily Gleaner of Kingston, Jamaica, visited Ornes at his home. Ornes is terminally ill and received his visitors in a wheel chair. Ornes has trained generations of Dominican journalists, many directors of leading Dominican newspapers.
