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...Builder. Intercontinental made deals to manage three South American hotels (worth $6.2 million) at Belem, Santiago and Barranquilla, and raised the capital to start three more (worth $17.5 million) abuilding at Montevideo, Caracas and Bogota. It began negotiations to build 17 others stretching from Japan to Saudi Arabia. Last week I.H.C. added two more links to its projected $100 million chain...
...Colombia prepared to inaugurate a new President last week, political tension combined with winter weather to make the capital city of Bogota cold and clammy. The state of siege under which the Conservatives had elected their presidential candidate, Laureano Gómez, was still very much in force...
...groups of four, with two of them holding their cocked Mausers under their arms, barrels level, ready to shoot. To reinforce the brown-uniformed "chocolate soldiers," hordes of plainclothesmen roamed the streets. Just in case any bogotanos did not get the idea, the army had held maneuvers in Bogota last month, and had "taken the city" in 40 minutes...
Whisky & Calm. Colombia's Liberals, still claiming that Gómez' election was illegal, talked and gestured but did nothing. Ex-President Alfonso López and ex-Candidate Darío Echandia merely left Bogota for the inauguration weekend. Liberal newspapers ignored all news of the inauguration, of President Pérez and President-elect...
Despite martial law and political stalemate, the killings which characterized Gómez' election campaign had not ended. Bragged one police lieutenant: "We're killing a thousand a week in the country. We figure we've got 15,000 to go." In Bogota particularly, murders, rapes and other violence by the police seemed to be increasing...