Word: calied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affluence grew, so did his ego; he started a Third Force political party, requiring followers to take an oath of loyalty "before God" to him. Rojas attacked old-party politicians with rising fury, and when six army trucks loaded with explosives inexplicably blew up last August in Cali. killing 427 and wounding 2,317, he made the intemperate blunder of charging the opposition with sabotage...
Breaking the 430-mile journey from the port of Buenaventura to Bogotá, six government trucks braked to a stop one afternoon last week beside the old Pacific railroad station in Cali, the palm-shaded heart city of the rich Cauca River Valley. In a district jammed with factories, warehouses and slums, the drivers bedded down for the night with their cargo-more than 30 tons of high explosives. At 1:07 a.m., like 30 blockbusters, the cargo blew up, in a tower of red flame and seething of black smoke...
...arose. What was in the trucks? Public Works Department dynamite, said the government. How was the explosion set off? President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla blamed "political saboteurs." Why were six trucks, loaded with so deadly a cargo, allowed to spend the night in a crowded city? That was a question Cali would never stop asking...
...complaints are not merely on size alone. In today's buyers' market, people are no longer satisfied with yesterday's dominolike housing developments. Location and landscaping have become vital. In Southern Cali fornia's Orange County, long one of the state's boomingest areas, thousands of houses are going begging, while developments in the San Fernando Valley are still a sellout. One big reason is that Orange County is becoming heavily industrialized; people would rather live in pleasant, factory-free surroundings even though they may have to drive 30 miles to work. The story...
Powerful Plans. Work started immediately at Calima, a power dam on the Pacific-flowing Calima River needed to supply 120,000 kw. for electricity-starved Cali by late 1959. Next year another dam will begin to rise at Timba, which in 1962 will begin to generate 60,000 kw. of power and curb the yearly floods that cover a quarter of the valley's million acres. Transmission lines will go up to tie the dams and a newly completed plant at Anchicaya (begun before C.V.C. was conceived) to power users. Work will start in 1959 on the system...