Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies of northwestern Colombia, the Motilon Indians of the jungle-tangled mountains are an industrial hazard. The Motilones (mo-tee-loan-es) ambush trucks, shoot 6-ft. arrows through the oilmen's tents-and sometimes through the oilmen. What is worse, they give the oilworkers' union a hard-to-answer argument for extra hazard...
...Little Indians. Last week Colombia's National Ethnological Institute had new hope of getting to know the Motilones. A nine-year-old Motilon boy recently led a settler near Petrolea to a hut in the jungle. In it were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...
...Condemned the persecution of Protestants in Colombia-"largely instigated by fanatical Roman Catholic priests"-and ordered copies of the resolution sent to Harry Truman, the United Nations and the Vatican...
LEONARD H. FABER Bogotá, Colombia...
...Crimson will play host to Colombia tomorrow and the Ephs will travel to Providence to meet Brown. The Yardling net team will oppose the Harvard Grads the same afternoon...