Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed world atom control? One after another, the delegates of seven nations-France, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Belgium, China, Colombia-pointed at Soviet Russia. Andrei Gromyko objected, claimed that all avenues to agreement had not been explored. This attitude was necessary for the sake of Moscow's propaganda claims that the West, not Russia, had sabotaged international agreement...
...five hours one day last week, TIME Inc. Correspondent Thomas Dozier stood by at the funeral of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombia's Liberal chieftain, whose assassination had touched off Bogotá's insurrection. Later, he wired: "Since the shooting ended, life has settled down to trying to cover the Pan American Conference, which is five miles away, get stories written, and still be in the hotel before the 7 p.m. curfew. If you are out after that, you risk being shot first and identified later...
...Quito awoke one morning last week to discover on their walls: "Death to Yankee imperialism-Viva Russia-Yesterday Bogotá, tomorrow Quito!" Beneath was scrawled the hammer & sickle. Ecuador's 2,500 Communists denied responsibility, but the government, deep in a political campaign and fearful that inflammatory Colombia might set off sparks in neighboring Ecuador, closed the northern boundary and set up special police patrols in some cities. Would there be a.revolution? "Of course," was the cynical answer of President Carlos Julio Arosema, "there has to be one. There are three candidates for President, and only...
...International Conference of American States, whose sessions had been so rudely interrupted by the outbreak, moved to the suburb of Chapineros and resumed its meetings in a high-school library. Like the scene, the atmosphere had changed. Now the chief delegates met around a long table, with Colombia's new Foreign Minister Eduardo Zuleta Angel presiding at one end and two Colombian officers clutching Tommy guns at the other. At one side sat U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, his personal interpreter stage-whispering every word in translation, until the headphones system could be rigged up again...
...delegates made their decision: "To continue the important work with which the governments have charged them until they have fully completed the task . . . for which they were convened." But that did not necessarily mean that the conference would stay in ruined Bogotá. There was doubt that shamefaced Colombia could continue as host to the great meeting of the Americas...