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...economist, Hirschman worked on financial and monetary problems of European recovery for the Federal Reserve Board from 1946 to 1952, and then spent four years as an economic advisor and consultant in Bogota, Colombia...
Last week the Russian delegation, scheduled to meet with Lleras Restrepo when the violence broke out, was still cooling its collective heels in Bogota's Continental Hotel waiting to see the President. The Russians seem to have almost infinite patience. Throughout Latin America, on which they have long cast covetous eyes, they are intensifying their efforts to step up trade and diplomatic relations...
...Colombia, terrorists ambushed an army patrol 125 miles southwest of Bogota, killed 15 troopers and wounded 15 others before escaping without a single loss. It was the first appearance in more than a year of the last of Colombia's big-time bandits, Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, alias Tiro Fijo (Sure Shot), who in recent years has styled himself a Castroite guerrilla. Under former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, Colombia's anti-insurgency troopers won control of four of the country's five Communist redoubts in the high Andes. Colombia's new President, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, called...
...news-shy governments to relax press censorship and winning a reputation as an implacable foe of dictatorships both right and left, which he amply documented in articles and books (Freedom Is My Beat, Fidel Castro: Rebel-Liberator or Dictator?); of a heart attack; while covering an economics conference in Bogota, Colombia (see THE WORLD...
...seems surprising enough that archaeologists should have missed such a find for so long-the area lies beneath a well-traveled air route to Bogota. Even more humbling is the knowledge that these aboriginal people were sophisticated enough to turn their hostile environment to such advantage. According to carbon 14 dating of a shell mound near the area, the newly discovered culture goes back to 3090 B.C., making it the oldest pottery site recorded in the New World. Only within recent years has earth-moving equipment, mechanized farming and malaria control made a 20th century dent on the ridged plains...