Word: calied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current concert tour of Latin America, Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein arrived in Cali, Colombia, irately plopped himself on the customs house floor to protest slow processing of his papers...
...last week, every move the dictator made to keep the upper hand went wrong. He ordered military police to end student demonstrations that broke out when his secret police arrested the joint Liberal-Conservative presidential candidate, Guillermo León Valencia, in Cali (TIME, May 13). But outside Bogotá's La Porciuncula Church the troops stormed the church itself as well as student demonstrators. Just as a priest raised the chalice at the altar, two tear-gas bombs exploded. Eyes streaming, the priest turned to the congregation. "A curse on the tyrant!" he thundered. "A curse upon...
Rojas himself touched off the show of opposition by a reckless move. His secret police arrested Guillermo León Valencia, the joint candidate of the united Liberals and Conservatives, in Cali, and ordered him to return to his home city of Popayán. When Valencia refused, soldiers quickly surrounded the private house where he was a guest...
...Dead or Tied Up." At midnight of the first day of his imprisonment, Valencia felt a need to consult with the church, which had already given him open support (TIME. May 6). He decided to visit Cali's Auxiliary Bishop Miguel Angel Medina. Friends tried to stop him, but fiery Valencia, his toothbrush mustache bristling, shouted "I am the boss," and stalked out. Marching up to the lieutenant in command, he demanded to be taken to the bishop's palace. The bold move worked; in the course of an hour-long conversation. Monsignor Medina offered asylum...
...South American by birth. Sert came to the United States in 1939. He has had extensive experience in long-range planning, having designed the master plans for the cities of Lima, Peru; Medellin, Cali, and Bogota, Colombia...