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...Bluebirds-blue being the Conservative color and bird the local slang for villain. One area where the Bluebirds are on the rampage is the south. Two months ago they hacked 14 Liberal farmers to death and hurled their bodies into the Bache River. Terrorized Caicedonia, 125 miles west of Bogota, is another Bluebird battlefield. A two-street town with a population of only 5,200, it has seen twelve murders in the last six weeks. Twenty others have been killed in the area around Caicedonia...
...subject is definitely on the agenda for Caracas, as it was at Bogota in 1948. The way of handling it is still unsettled. There is little likelihood that Guatemala will be arraigned on charges of undermining the hemisphere's security. The U.S. will press for a full debate, in the course of which Communism's growing influence in Guatemala will presumably be aired. U.S. delegates will probably also propose specific measures for controlling Communism through stricter limits on the circulation of propaganda and issuance of visas...
...arranged for Michigan's Dr. Pearl Kendrick, the world's top authority on vaccines for whooping cough, to help Colombia set up a laboratory. To get the program started, 80,000 shots were supplied from U.S. labs. Now, the technically difficult process is done entirely in the Bogota lab, which will turn out all the vaccine needed in 1953. Colombia has put up $102,800 for the campaign, and UNICEF's part is ending. But countless children are indebted to it for lifesaving stings...
Toward Rome last week, by roads that began in Bombay, Bogota, Los Angeles and other far-off places, traveled the princes of the Roman Catholic Church. Among them, bound for their first papal consistory, were 17 of the church's 24* new cardinals. One of the last to arrive, after a stormy Atlantic crossing in a Constellation named Star of Vatican City, was Los Angeles' Archbishop Francis A. McIntyre, the single new cardinal from...
...Death has become commonplace in Colombia," said a well-informed U.S. traveler returning from Bogota last week. "The words assassination and murder are bandied about with no more emotion than we talk of beans, butter & bread...