Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JERRY SCHOENDORF Cali, Colombia...
...parlors, the coming general elections were all but ignored in favor of an even more pressing issue. Little more than a week before the start of the cup matches in Mexico City, Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup soccer team, was arrested in Bogotá, Colombia, on charges of stealing a $1,400 emerald-studded bracelet. The jeweler filed suit for an extra $11,000 in "moral damages," and police picked up hints that Soccer Superstar Bobby Charlton had been Moore's accomplice. Moore is now free on "conditional liberty," but Charlton's wife Norma...
...Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...
...whose four-year term ends in August, the price of poor memory was near chaos. The early favorite was Economist Misael Pastrana, 46, the "official" Conservative party candidate under the National Front system. The Front was created in 1958, when the warring Liberal and Conservative parties sought to defuse Colombia's explosive politics by passing into law a unique arrangement: until 1974, the parties could campaign for the presidency only in alternate election years...
...Lesson. A National Front defeat would hardly do Colombia any good. Lleras Restrepo has done much to cure the financially sick country during his four years as President. He strengthened the peso through tougher tax collection, a drive on inflation and a strong grip on military spending. He also pushed agrarian reform and a birth control pro gram, notwithstanding the Vatican's opposition. Unfortunately, none of this meant much to the peasants, to whom the diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Lleras Restrepo appears as a somewhat abrasive and distant technocrat. "The lesson," he said, visibly shocked at the closeness...