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Although North Americans revere Simón Bolívar as South America's great Liberator, not many are aware how far to the right his political views veered in his last years. Last week those authoritarian views were again a hot political issue in Colombia...
Nearly 126 years ago, Bolívar tried to get Colombians to accept the new constitution he had written for the Republic of Bolivia. As a republican charter, it was a shocker; among other things, it called for a powerful President elected for life, drastic limitation of voting rights, and a three-chamber Congress, including a strong Chamber of Censors-also chosen for life. Colombians rejected the Liberator's plan, went along instead with the local-rights doctrines of Bolívar's estranged lieutenant, Francisco de Paula Santander, father of Colombia's Liberal Party...
...newspaper El Siglo, mouthpiece of ailing President Laureano Gómez, praised Bolivar's idea of rule by an elite. In editorials supposedly written by Gómez himself, El Siglo echoed Bolívar's dictum that "elections are the scourge of all republics," and upheld the Liberator's aristocratic approach to politics. Said El Siglo: "If the law is abnormal or inconvenient, push it to one side . . . Retain elasticity . . . though procedure may not always be strictly legal. The letter kills; the spirit gives life...
...Mello, out of the shadow of Bol Richards again, should have no difficulty winning the pole vault; Bob Geick is also top heavy favorite in the broad jump Charlie Durakis and Bob Twitchell could give the Crimson a lot of power in the hurdles...
Washington Columnist Evelyn Peyton Gordon, who keeps her readers up to date on the smaller issues of the capital, published a paragraph of unclassified intelligence. Announced was the fact that Representative Frances Bol+on of Ohio, whose hair used to be brown, then white, then blue, now wears it brown again...