Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's barefaced drive to re-elect himself President of Colombia piled up enough opposition last week to bring it to a shaky halt. Joined to thwart the strongman's second-term ambitions, the Roman Catholic Church under Crisanto Cardinal Luque, the newly united Liberal and Conservative Parties and the belligerent university students took direct action. Caught by surprise, the President hesitated. Then he moved what he said were 35,000 troops into Bogotá to regain control...
...gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...
...Australia, Britain, Colombia, Cuba, France and Sweden. Iraq and the Soviet Union said it was all right as it stood...
...been pistol-whipped, jailed and shot at in the course of covering revolutions in ten-Latin American countries. During Costa Rica's 1948 revolt against its pro-Communist government, six Red goons worked Dubois over with rifle butts. A month later, while covering a revolution in Colombia, Dubois phoned a blow-by-blow story to the Trib from a room in Bogota's presidential palace while insurgents fought in the corridors. Later, to get his own and fellow newsmen's copy to a cable office, Dubois ran a gauntlet of machine-gun fire. "He's absolutely...
Last week, in his annual I.A.P.A. report on press freedom, Jules Dubois complained of a governmental stranglehold on the news in five countries besides the Dominican Republic: Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Colombia. "Not next year, or the year after, but some year," says Dubois, "the time may come when the association can say to a dictator or a would-be dictator: 'Stop! You've gone far'enough!'" But Dubois reports that even in countries where newspapers are basically free, even in Castillo Armas' Guatemala, attempts at suppression continue. The moment a free press fears...