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...Bogota, at the annual meeting of the 93-member International Air Transport Association-which the normally secretive outfit opened to the press for the first time in 20 years-airmen sounded sorry that they had ever heard of the SST. They fretted about sonic booms, expressed reluctance to give up the highly profitable jets that they now operate, and worried about the shattering effect that they fear supersonics will have on their balance sheets. "At $40 million," said Air India's Chairman J.R.D. Tata, "we would be paying five times as much for an aircraft doing only 21 times...
Three weeks have elapsed since that noisy opening of Colombia's Congress, but Bogota's capitol building still rings with the shrill cries of the same opposition. Its aim is the overthrow of President Valencia and the end of the fragile, six-year-old coalition of Liberals and Conservatives that governs Colombia. The opposition's leader: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, a deposed and discredited ex-dictator who is making a surprising comeback. Right now, Rojas and his followers are little more than a swarm of annoying gnats, but the swarm is growing...
What delight it is to linger over William Sheldon's treatise on aerial navigation (Eng 5508.50.3) written in the middle of the 19th century, or John Ranking's "Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century, by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants" (London...
...from over. A change of government could disrupt the whole military program. Disaffected Liberals have joined in a leftist opposition movement that will test the Frente Nacional's strength in congressional elections next week. But for the first time in years, the atmosphere is hopeful. Pablo Samper, a Bogota businessman, actually took his wife with him on a recent visit to his 5,000-acre finca in northern Tolima department. "I used to spend the weekends there with my family," he says. "Maybe the time will come again...
...most communities along Satena's route, the air force planes are the only regular link with the outside world. From Bogota, Satena takes off daily with fabrics, fertilizers, medicines and home appliances; commissaries are being set up to sell these goods at bargain prices. On return trips, the planes bring out fish, hides, rubber and dairy products. Farmers in the Caqueta region last year shipped 1,000,000 sacks of rice to market via Satena; at the village of El Refugio, fishermen who used to have no way to market their catch now fly out four tons weekly. This...