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...there it was last week, in Colombia's rising industrial city of Cali, and on hand for the discussions were 70 edu cators, sociologists, medical men, government welfare workers, demographers and Catholic priests from 20 countries. "The problem of our time," said former Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo, "is that through new drugs we have managed to control death. But we have not been able to control the giving of new life. And the result is a grave crisis of overcrowding, unemployment, slums, misery and violence." With an annual growth rate of 3.5% (v. about 2% for India...
...terms of the agreement call for Liberals and Conservatives to alternate the presidency every four years, while splitting Cabinet posts and congressional seats down the middle. Under the Front's first President, Alberto Lleras Camargo, a Liberal widely respected by all factions, the arrangement seemed to be working well enough. Since he left office in 1962, differences among the Front's factions have sharpened and deepened...
...COLOMBIA was once regarded as a showcase of the Alliance for Progress. With massive infusions of U.S. aid ($230 million since 1961), and under the steady hand of former President Alberto Lleras Camargo, the country's Liberal and Conservative parties called a truce in their senseless civil war and pushed through an impressive series of reforms. Under the current President, Guillermo León Valencia, army civic action programs and anti-guerrilla campaigns have sharply reduced poverty-fed banditry in the backlands. That is Valencia's major success. During his 31 months in office, the cost of living...
Caught in the ideological struggle between East and West-and deploring it most loudly of all-have been the neutral nations of Africa and Asia. In a sharply worded formal statement for the convocation's record, ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia chided many of these hand-wringing bystanders for making a contribution to peace that adds up to zero. Said he: "Too often we apply a very high standard of performance to those powers that have done most to comply with their national and international obligations, even as we acquiesce in the fact that a huge part...
About all that the Conservatives still have in common is their revulsion for Liberal Party Leader Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 56, the Liberal choice for coalition candidate in the 1966 elections. A cousin of Lleras Camargo and one of Valencia's most sulphurous critics, Attorney Lleras is nicknamed "el Prematuro" by his foes because of his visible eagerness for the presidency...