Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COLOMBIA First to Korea
...first time in 127 years, Colombian troops marched off last week to fight on foreign soil.* At a field Mass under the colonnade of the national Capitol in Bogotá, President Laureano Gomez presented battle colors to the Batalión Colombia, a 1,082-man combat team of volunteers for the war in Korea. Colombia is the 15th nation to send ground troops to Korea, the first Latin American country to join in the fighting...
...week's end estimates were down to some 200 dead and 300 to 500 seriously injured.* The government's gravest problem was taking care of the thousands of homeless. Good neighbors pitched in; airborne supplies were dispatched from Panama (by the American Red Cross), Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico...
Democratic, progressive Switzerland finds itself in strange company on one point. It is one of only 14 countries in which women are barred from voting. The others: Afghanistan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia...
CAMILO CRUZ SANTOS Bogota, Colombia...