Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Memories evidently are short in Colombia, the largest of the working democracies remaining in South America. Little more than a decade ago, the country writhed under the dictatorship of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who was installed by the country's civilian and military leadership in 1953 to help bring an end to la violencia that eventually claimed 200,000 lives. Graft and jack-booted brutality characterized his regime. One memorable day in 1956, when Rojas' banner was raised in the Bogota bullring, squads of plainclothes police with knives and billy clubs closed in on spectators who failed...
Denver Univ, Colombia Univ. and Fort Lewis Univ, must be regarded as the favorites, but Dartmouth and Middlebury are capable of ????? the Western powers...
...more recent times, while Brando was trying to get out of Colombia, South America, and Sinatra was trying to stay out of Newark, New Jersey, Furie has come up with another leading man, whose name is not exactly a household word, although for all I know, Barry Newman may indeed be very big on Let's Make a Deal. Newman, who comes off as a cross between Andy Williams and Soupy Sales, plays the title role in The Lawyer -a young man named Tony Petrocelli who lives somewhere out in L.B.J. Country in spite of being a product of Harvard...
Most of the radical clergy are probably not doctrinaire on the question of violence. As is stated in a radical position paper presented at the Second General Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) in Medellin, Colombia, "The form of the social revolution varies greatly. There is not just one method.... Everything depends on the objective conditions and the desires of the people. There are peaceful methods and there are violent methods." (P. Comblin, "La Iglessia y el Tercer Mundo," La Nacion, Aug. 9. 1970, p. 8. From this summary, the document appears to be a Marxist analysis, even examining...