Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Palau's growing impact was demonstrated during the closing days of the Dominican crusade, when he flew to strife-torn Colombia to address a "Banquet of Hope" attended by 2,500 civic leaders. The principal guest, Colombia's President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, showered Palau with congratulations. He responded with a blunt plea for the Colombian elite to turn to God and foster a spiritual reawakening. The Colombians who arranged the banquet, Palau told TIME, think that "the only ideology that can stop Marxist-Leninism or the disintegration of our society is Evangelical Christianity...
...Historically, at least, not much of one. The U.S. will be ceding the canal to Panama but not "returning" it, since Panama never really possessed it. If anything, Colombia was the aggrieved party. With American connivance, Colombian rebels "liberated" the isthmus from the Bogota government in 1903 and turned the rights to build the canal over to the U.S. Panama and its canal came to life together; without the canal, Panama could scarcely exist as a viable nation. Canal revenues account for some 25% of Panama's gross national product, 20% of its employment and almost...
...latest sign that drug smuggling along the region's seacoast has swelled to a high and threatening tide. In the past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass from South America was seized after landing in Bedford, Mass...
...England's 250 colleges and its average price for pot of $40 per oz. offered an attractive market to smugglers. Says Edward Cass, regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Someone would buy a boat, pick up a crew at some marina, go down to Jamaica or Colombia and drop a ton of the grass off on the Florida coast, a ton off at the Carolinas, then a ton in Rhode Island and in Maine." Most of the smugglers were young adventurers (including some from as far away as Australia) with no serious criminal backgrounds, and many headed...
...allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization," Roosevelt wrote Hay. Earlier that summer the New York lawyer for the French company, William Cromwell, left a meeting in Washington with the President to issue a press release stating that the province of Panama might secede from Colombia, in which case the U.S. would recognize Panama as an independent nation and conclude a treaty with the new state. This scheme seemed to violate an 1846 U.S. agreement to guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia in the isthmus. Violation or not, the plot was shortly put into effect...