Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warmup session for strong U.S. teams. American athletes have so dominated the Pan-Am Games, in fact, that International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage began to wonder whether they might be too good for their own good. Shortly before the opening of the sixth Pan-Am Games in Cali, Colombia, the 83-year-old Brundage observed: "It doesn't look good for the U.S. to be collaring three-quarters of the Pan-Am medals. It's not good for sports, the games or the U.S. There has to be some resentment by the other countries...
Barbed Wire. The fans attending the boxing match in a Cali bull ring also went wild when U.S. Middleweight Reginald Jones was awarded a close decision over Colombia's Bonifacio Avila Jones and his handlers had to be escorted out of the arena under a barrage of rocks and bottles. Noting the crowd's partisan cheering throughout the games, U.S. Decathlon Star Russ Hodge said: "They don't like us. Even in Russia they gave us better applause than they do here for a good performance...
...much as $3,000 per carat wholesale, on a par with diamonds. What buyers do not know is that they are almost certainly, if unwittingly, contributing to the prosperity of one of the world's most lucrative-and bloodiest-illegal businesses. Some 90% of all emeralds come from Colombia, where mining and sale of the gems are supposedly a government monopoly. In fact, reports TIME Correspondent David Lee, the business has been monopolized by outlaws called esmeralderos (emerald buccaneers), who pocketed about 90% of the $50 million that the world paid last year for Colombian gems...
...that line 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Jewels are smuggled out of the country by two international combines that finance the families' buying trips. Some emeralds leave in the pockets of couriers who take commercial jets. Big shipments go out by light plane from one of Colombia's 800 private airstrips...
...arms race could lead not only to distorted social priorities but also possibly to a shooting war. Only a few weeks ago, a World War H-vintage Venezuelan North American B-25 bomber fired on a pair of U.S. Bell Huey helicopters that were mapping the Guajira frontier between Colombia and Venezuela, where oil exploration is under way. In part because Caracas fears that Bogota might bring its shiny new French-made Mirages into the argument, the Venezuelans have increased their oil taxes-to the great displeasure of the U.S. oil companies there-and announced plans to spend $35.5 million...