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Colombia last week underwent one major disaster and was saved from another. In rapid succession, two earthquakes rolled across the country, turning buildings into rubble in country towns, shaking up the terrified capital of Bogotá and causing 83 deaths and millions of dollars in damage. It was the country's worst earthquake in half a century. But it was hardly worse than the disaster that formed when the week began: almost certain financial collapse. Coffee is Colombia's life (it accounts for 70% of all foreign exchange), and a 10% drop in world coffee prices...
...Johnson to get together later this year and discuss economic integration and other regional problems of the hemisphere. The response was overwhelmingly in favor, and only the time and place remained to be set. Last week, in a small warmup to the bigger meeting, President Frei flew off to Bogotá for a threeday, five-nation "Andean summit...
...Terry. Among the balls, banquets and other ceremonial gatherings, the five met to discuss mutual economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled for Montevideo next December, and the five nations gathered in Bogotá-all small and relatively undiversified-could well be trying to organize a pressure group to counteract the larger individual power of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. Predictably, the five denied any such intention. "We are not trying to create an economic bloc," Frei said. "We are only trying to start something which...
...their final "Declaration of Bogotá," the five countries pinpointed eight main areas for joint industrial development (metallurgy, chemicals and petrochemicals, fertilizers, food, electronics, timber, cellulose and manufactured metal products) and four other areas for nonindustrial development (roads, communications, electric power and banking). As a hint of what will come at the bigger hemisphere-wide meeting, the five also requested more say in the Alliance for Progress, which marked its fifth anniversary last week. The fruits of the Bogotá meeting may not show up for months, until committees work out the details and actual coordination of the broader programs...
...even overseas. Math students at Harvard have free access-via telephone-to a unique computer at the University of California's Santa Barbara campus. Kenyon, Oberlin and the ten other schools of the Great Lakes Association together sponsor international study centers for their students in Beirut, Tokyo, Bogotá; and Guanajuato, Mexico...