Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here is an account of the news in Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul: "A retired general had died in Cordoba at the age of eighty; a few bombs had exploded in Bogotá, and of course the Argentine football team was continuing its violent progress through Europe." Of course. The old innocent view that the game itself could be, to its supporters and players alike, a purge of violent emotions has long been exploded. Soccer is not the poor man's Sophocles...
...greatest collection of such pre-Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations...
...trouble started before Secretary of State William Rogers arrived. In Bogotá, thousands of Colombian students boycotted classes to protest his 17-day tour through eight Latin American nations. Others blocked the main highway from midtown Bogotá to the airport. By the time Rogers arrived, however, most of the students had been dispersed by police, and the official motorcade zipped into the capital without incident...
...Richard Nixon has reason to remember from his 1958 experience in Caracas, Latin American student protests against visiting U.S. dignitaries are nothing new. Nonetheless, the Bogotá protests symbolized the continent's coolness toward Rogers' tour...
Discovered by Pigs. The outlaw monopoly starts right at the mines, in the jagged Andes 60 miles northeast of Bogotá. Many jewels are stolen by miners in the government's Muzo, Peñas Blancas and Coscuez mines. The thieves pocket most of the emeralds that they dig out of the soil, paying off the inspectors who are supposed to guard the pits. Other stones are illegally mined to begin with. A miner with a few pesos to invest in dynamite and tools assembles a squad of men and goes off to dig. It is not a difficult...